“The requests I made for more extensive testing went ignored. We were discharged with the diagnosis, ‘virus, probably, she’ll be fine.’ He was wrong.”
‘Parents, I say this with every ounce of sincerity – YOU know your children better than anyone else in this world.’
‘She was completely blue and lifeless’: Baby’s MIRACULOUS turnaround after she STOPPED BREATHING 18 minutes after birth
“How was this the same perfect baby I had just delivered 2 hours ago, whose blue eyes opened up so perfectly and looked into mine?”
‘ATTN PARENTS! Watch out for those fuzzy caterpillars!’ Mom’s urgent warning after caterpillar tentacles are stuck in daughter’s cheek
“The doctor said all the caterpillar hairs are stuck to her tongue and the tentacles are fused to her cheek.”
‘Six weeks later she was handed a death sentence’: How dad’s amazing skin to skin contact with twins helps heal family after devastating loss
“Given the news, we had a choice to make – we could live out the rest of her life in misery and grief, or we could choose joy.”
‘I was on my hands and knees, crawling, at my college graduation. I felt ashamed that me, a Christian girl, was pregnant.’
“It was hot, I was 8 months pregnant and in a black cap and gown. The longer I waited, the weaker I got, so I decided to crawl onto that field!”
‘Why we are doing NOTHING this summer.’
“I had big plans to be a ‘good mom’ this summer. There were going to be chore charts, reading goals, daily letter writing practice, and cursive classes.”
‘He was an older African American gentleman, with amputated legs and appeared homeless. My first reaction, sadly, was ‘oh crap!’
“I debated making a post of this as it paints a not so flattering picture of me as a person. But I think in the end it is a picture of many of us if we are truly honest with ourselves.”
‘It was only a matter of time before the heartbeat stopped’: After loss at 16 weeks, mom welcomes baby who ‘kicked butt’ in the NICU
“I heard the faintest little cry. My heart jumped and tears welled up in my eyes as I asked, ‘Oh my gosh was that him?!’ He made it!”
‘My mother is suffering from breast cancer’: Deep insight into a family who deals with this ‘incomprehensible illness’ their very own way
“We have been avoiding tears. Always. Because of her 5-year-old daughter, because of hope, and friendship too.”
‘You realize the power of what your body has done’: Mom’s shocked reaction to 9-pound newborn is all-too-relatable
“Growing and delivering a baby takes so much strength!”
