“We were having a baby 6 weeks early. ‘I need to hear her cry!’ I entered the world of the unknown.”

- Love What Matters
- Children
“We were having a baby 6 weeks early. ‘I need to hear her cry!’ I entered the world of the unknown.”
“I’ll never forget being told to catheterize our 5-day-old baby. I didn’t even know that was possible. When they strapped her little arm, I nearly fainted.”
“She cried and asked me if she could hug me ‘pandemic’ and all. We embraced as the cashier got teary-eyed. In five minutes, I managed to make two strangers smile.”
“With a smile, my dad said, ‘You’re going to be tiny all your life.’ It didn’t usually bother me. I found acceptance and kindness at nearly every turn. And then I went viral.”
“The greatest lesson we’ve both learned through this entire journey is if we put our child first, everything else will fall into place.”
“It is not my job to discipline your kid, and if you don’t tell your kid to stop, and I have to, then I will.”
“Our genetics counselor suggested we institutionalize her. The speech therapist said right in front of my 8-year-old daughter, ‘She will likely never have a job. I don’t even think part-time work is in her future.’ Right then is when a fire got lit. We wanted her to have the fullest and most complete life she possibly could.”
“I’m 5’7″ and my husband is 6’3″.”
“They told us if we decided against taking in the baby, they would take the older two and find a home who was willing to take all three siblings, for the sake of keeping them together. Well, we were not about to let that happen. Three short months later, I was home with my three kids and a POSITIVE pregnancy test.”
“The mama who had ‘given up the chance at a good life to raise two young children.’ The one who had chosen ‘mama’ over ‘life.’ Full stop. I had to show them both how everyone else was wrong.”