“It might be meant to be funny and it might be catchy, but if you are saying it and your husband is still alive, you are using the term wrong. You are not a widow.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘You are NOT a widow.’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Our child’s personality changed overnight at the age of 15 months. A once happy, easy going child suddenly turned aggressive, irritable and OCD’ish.’
“He would be physical with people, throw toys, completely lose it. This wasn’t just the normal tantrum; he was in his own world. It is so frustrating that medical professionals don’t know about it, and some even deny its existence.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I would seriously donate my eggs to you…for reals.’ Was this really happening?
“Why don’t you just use Tia’s eggs and you could have a cute brown baby!”
By LJ Herman -
‘After 40 years of marriage, my mom finally got her wedding day. And it was all a surprise!’
“Back in the main room, I took my place next to my dad. It was nice to see my hero nervous. And he had good reason! My mom stole every ounce of air in the room the second she walked through the door.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘My first baby was born by C-section. It wasn’t planned, it was an emergency.’
“I had been induced at 41 weeks pregnant, and after 4 days of drugs, and labor, and 3 hours of pushing, it ended in the middle of the night in an operating room. I mourned the loss of a ‘natural birth’ for months, for years.”
By LJ Herman -
”I wouldn’t want to eat with a blanket on my head! How would I be able to breathe?!’ EXACTLY honey. If an 8 year old can understand that, so can an adult.’
“Seriously people. It’s 2018. We shouldn’t even have to do ‘nurse-ins’ or fight for our right to feed our babies in public. It is absurd to me that people still don’t ‘get it.'”
By LJ Herman -
‘I was told I have a heart-shaped uterus, but I’m not feeling the love.’
“I did what most of us do, but know we shouldn’t. I Googled ‘heart-shaped uterus’ and its risk factors. What I found on the internet gave me a panic attack. Why didn’t I know about this during my first pregnancy? If we had known, could we have saved him?”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘How the hell did I end up here again? One of my fingernails was completely ripped off, I could taste blood in my mouth and fear took over my entire body.’
“In that moment, I faced the biggest decision of my life. Either go back to the lifestyle, with no guarantee of ever making it back out alive; or fight for my life with everything I had. I had to fight.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I received a text from my mom that said, ‘Stop what you’re doing and start praying.”
“My first thought was, ‘Oh my gosh! What has happened, is everyone okay?!’”
By LJ Herman -
‘I’m The Millennial Girl Who Can’t Wait To Have Kids Because I’m Not Sure I Want A Job’
“I’m sure if I wanted to, I could become an accountant. If I worked hard enough, I could be a nurse. I could do anything I put my mind to…”
By LJ Herman -
