“I dig my fingers and nails into my skin, I rub the crap out of my knees, I pick my cuticles, I pinch my skin extremely hard, my muscles all get super tight and my entire body tenses. I hyperventilate, and I can’t control my body.”
By LJ Herman -
The girl at the front desk asked me with the biggest smile, ‘Where’s the baby? No baby?’ I shook my head no. ‘Why didn’t you bring your baby?!’
By LJ Herman -
‘He was there the day we saw that first positive test. When we danced around the kitchen. And, when the cramping began and I watched my dreams bleed out, he was there.’
“He was there when I said I was ready to try again. When we stood in that tiny bathroom for the fourth time staring at a plus sign that seemed more like a question mark, he was there.”
By LJ Herman -
‘I told him I captured him crying seeing his son, he said, ‘That’s not why I was crying.’
“Puzzled, I asked what he meant.”
By LJ Herman -
‘My liver was shutting down. I could no longer carry my pregnancy without serious risk to us both. Everything came crashing down. I had done everything right!’
“Before I could process I had given birth to you, you were placed on my chest and I started crying. The crying that your soul has been fulfilled.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I lost the baby’: Mom thanks ‘miracle’ surrogate after being diagnosed with same pregnancy complication as Kate Middleton
“I simply wrote, ‘This little girl needs her brother or sister. Can anyone help?’ And you know what? Someone replied.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘My sweet little miracle’: After adopting 6 kids, couple finally gets pregnant with their ’10 year adventure’
“‘Alright Christina, I will tell you what. Go home, take this trigger shot and just have fun. Let’s see what happens.'”
By Eliza Murphy -
How this young mom’s 2-pound ‘NICU Princess’ defied the odds to grow into 17-pound ‘ball of sass’
“Having a child in the NICU is terrifying. You don’t know what the road ahead holds as your tiny child fights to live.”
By Eliza Murphy -
