“I was about 36 weeks pregnant, bringing another life earth side while fighting for my other child’s life.”

- Love What Matters
- Children
“I was about 36 weeks pregnant, bringing another life earth side while fighting for my other child’s life.”
“My stomach dropped. All summer, she’d been expressing anxiety about making friends. This had the potential to be exactly the thing to crush her confidence.”
“You showed me how to handle a three-pound baby without making it seem frightening. You helped me learn how to change her diaper and give her a bath for the very first time.”
“The silence was deafening. I felt the weight of her as they placed her in my arms. She was a little over 4 pounds. She was beautiful. We held her and had pictures taken with her. Then a couple of days later, we left the hospital with a box instead of our daughter.”
“She couldn’t even sit up without falling over. Our eleven-year-old daughter had become a six-month-old all over again. To this day, almost five years later, we still don’t know the cause.”
“‘What a gorgeous baby! He must be a dream come true?’ Please don’t forget to say, ‘Mom, he’s great, but how are YOU?'”
“I apprehensively showed him the test, thinking surely he’d turn around and run the other way. Instead, he hugged me as my mascara ran down my face, telling me, ‘Everything will be okay.’ I knew he was going to change my life.”
“‘Love her like you would a normal child.’ Would people really think Charlotte wasn’t a ‘normal’ child or we wouldn’t love the crap out of her? And what is ‘normal’ anyway?”
“My husband took my hands and said, ‘Rachel, I think we need to wait. I feel like a child is going to be put into our lives when we aren’t expecting it.’ Two days later, the sweetest baby boy was wheeled into the room. As soon as I saw him, my heart knew….I would do anything for him.”
“I was always the good student, then the good employee, but I became the good drinker.”