“The shock of staring at their translucent, 1-pound bodies, consumed me. The guilt overwhelmed me as I looked at the machines keeping my children alive. Yet, there was no judgement from you, our nurse.”
‘Are you ready to hold your daughter?’ My eyes wide open, I nodded. After delivering my triplets, hours after my first child died, you took pictures of my sweet babies.’
‘We were told, ‘Having 6 children significantly reduces chances of a birth mother selecting your family.’ The call to adopt was hard to ignore.’: Woman adopts 7th child, develops special relationship with teen birth mom
“’When he’s placed in your arms, and all he knows is you and all he has is you. The same parental instinct that cares and protects our other children, will develop.’ I held out hope my husband and God would show our family the path we were supposed to be on.”
‘Something weird was happening. My abdomen started to swell. I appeared 7 months pregnant. The second we left the clinic, fear invaded us.’: Mom births quadruplets, claims she wouldn’t ‘change it for anything in the world’
“‘There’s something out of the ordinary here.’ They extracted four liters of the mystery fluid from my body, but couldn’t figure out what was wrong. They performed several tests and it was determined that, health wise, I was fine. Soon after, I decided to do a pregnancy test. I was looking at not 1 or 2 embryos, but 4. Quadruplets!”
‘Babes, got my period, get pads – wings. And hazelnut Magnums, not the minis. And whatever the kids want for dinner. Can’t cook – dying.’: Mom recounts how her relationship has changed
“Husband. Wife. Roommates? If someone told me years ago that my relationship would one day change, I would have laughed and said no way.”
‘My parents knew I suffered abuse. ‘It is not that bad, she will get over it.’ I was alone. Because they doubted me, I started to doubt myself.’
“After another traumatic pregnancy, it hit me like a truck. I loved her so much, but I kept looking at her and thinking, ‘how could you?’ I always thought if I had a baby girl, I would make sure nothing happened to her, like it did to me. But the moment I held her, I realized I couldn’t keep that promise.”
‘I had not noticed CJ didn’t have his sneakers until we were at the front desk. I put my head in my hands. ‘Now what am I going to do?’: Special needs mom blown away by Planet Fitness manager’s act of kindness
“A staff member asked me CJ’s shoe size. I knew if they checked lost and found, they wouldn’t find his size because he has small feet for a man, so we went about our workout. A few minutes later, the manager came walking over.”
‘I fought buying a king-sized bed for years. It was for older couples who secretly hate each other but are sticking it out until the kids leave for college.’: Man learns important lesson about his marriage
“My wife was insistent, saying she couldn’t sleep that close to me. Then she’d look at me with the same cold, dead eyes.”
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“See the woman you fell in love with. See her and choose her.”
‘I want to try for another baby,’ I told my husband. I was so scared. I took a test and it was positive! I felt fear creep in. At night I couldn’t sleep.’
“When I saw our sweet baby moving on the screen, I felt like I could breathe again. After that, I started to feel our baby kick. I was finally able to believe this baby would live.”
‘What does a baby’s heart look like at 18 weeks?’ I knew something was wrong. But Tad’s father continued to say, ‘Don’t worry until we have to.’ So I tried my best not to.’
“‘He is sitting Buddha style facing away from me, so I cannot not get a good look.’ I remember watching him confirm the gender, check fingers and toes, but kept going back. He told us ‘not to worry.’ I left that appointment wanting to share the great news of, ‘we’re having a baby boy,’ but it was a double-edged sword.”