“At one week old, you approached me with a smile. ‘Are you ready to hold your daughter,’ you asked. Weighing just 16 ounces, I held my child for the first time. Thank you to the nurse who gave me that first milestone.”
‘I stared at their translucent, 1 pound bodies. Guilt overwhelmed me. Yet, there was no judgement from you, our NICU nurse.’
‘How could a perfectly healthy baby just stop breathing? How could I lose my baby like that? Why would this happen to me?’
“I turned to check on him and I couldn’t see him breathing, so I placed my hand on his cheek. It was ice cold. I realized instantly he was gone.”
‘Did she just tell me I’m going to have triplets?’ I hung up the phone. I wish we got our fairy tale ending.’: Mother of twins says ‘every ounce of pain has turned into joy’ after losing one child in pregnancy
“‘All 3 of your eggs made it to embryo stage!’ I wish I could tell you that this was it, that we finally had our fairy tale ending. I thought we would get a break, that we had finally ‘arrived.’ I was wrong. I was face down on the floor sobbing. Our Baby C, who we named Charlie, went to Heaven.”
‘HOLY SH*T, we finally did it!’ Wife surprises husband with shocking baby announcement after 3 years of infertility
“She explained it would be extremely hard for me to become pregnant. I broke down in that cold exam room. The only thing in my head was, ‘I can’t have kids. I can’t be a woman for this amazing man who is counting on me.’”
‘I have a good friend who was with her husband from age 18. She found out that, over a year ago, he cheated on her.’: Mom details friend’s ‘life after divorce’
“As soon as I walked in I was asked, ‘Why are you friends with Sarah? She’s gone wild now, she’s got all these tattoos, she dumps her kids so she can go out partying. I heard she’s got another boyfriend already! Those poor kids!’ Because she’s moved on, she was called a sl*t.”
‘I was so unhappy with what I saw. Then I caught my youngest daughter staring at me. All of a sudden, the realization hit me like a load of bricks.’
“I’ve always been ‘tiny’ and never struggled with weight loss, only weight gain. This struggle was so unfamiliar to me, and no amount of clean eating or working out was helping. It was trying to tell me something was wrong, but I ignored it.”
‘Tomorrow is Grandparent’s day. If your child has a grandparent living in the area, you’re welcome to bring them.’: Mom devastated after realizing her children’s grandparents live too far away
“That was just about enough to shatter my heart into a million pieces. My kids’ grandparents live 970 miles away and 2,437 miles away. We chose this life for our children. We chose to pursue opportunity in states far away from our own parents, their grandparents.”
‘Isaiah and this lady had NEVER met before. Color doesn’t matter to a lot of people, I love her and don’t know her!’: Woman shares stranger’s touching act of kindness
“This lady patted and rocked Isaiah to sleep like she had given birth to him.”
‘We forget what it is to go into labor. To be wracked with pain so excruciating we can’t fathom ever withstanding it. A mama is meant to forget.’
“We are mamas, and we are meant to forget.”
‘I had a dream you’re getting a baby,’ a lady texted. I looked at my husband, tearful and angry. ‘That’s just MEAN. Doesn’t she know how long we’ve been trying?!’: Woman surprised with pregnancy after ‘6 long years’ of trying
“When my son was two months old, my life took a turn I never expected. I bent down to pick my baby up and felt something snap. I dropped him in his crib and couldn’t move. I called my doctor and said, ‘Something isn’t right.'”