“We officially got the great news and shouted it loud for all to hear. We were on cloud 9. Everything was fun and exciting. Until it wasn’t.”
‘I worried my wonderful southern knight would leave me because I couldn’t give him the family he wanted. I started to break down, slowly. I felt so alone.’
‘My oldest son wanted to ask his Dad (as he calls him) to adopt him, and officially take his stepfather’s last name.’
“When the day got here, even I was unaware of what was going on. I was just as shocked as he was.”
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“If our kids learn habits that can be sustainable and responsible young, they’ll stick with them into adulthood.”
‘The man at the grocery store said, ‘So he is your last then, the baby of the family?’ The tears I’d been containing started pouring again.’: Mom with PCOS suffers miscarriage, ‘Please know we loved you already’
“He pats my shoulder kindly and before walking away he says, ‘Everything is going to be okay. God always has a plan.’”
‘This picture of me is blurry, and so is how I have been feeling. I am crapped out.’
“The truth is that, in the summertime, while I enjoy these extra moments with my children, I am also a mess because of it.”
‘I grew up in a time where you could drink from the hose. And I survived.’
“Nobody told my mom she was ruining our lives because we played until the street lights were on. But now as moms, we don’t survive.”
‘He was so wiggly coming out he made it hard to catch him! We were so overwhelmed, he was so beautiful.’: Parents welcome ‘perfect rainbow baby boy’ after pregnancy loss
“We had a surprise pregnancy. Unfortunately, that ended in a loss of our little one which hit us pretty hard. We choose to leave everything up to fate and not prevent another future pregnancy. Sure enough, 5 months later we were expecting another little one! And again, it ended in a loss. So, we chose to hold off on the idea. Turns out fate had other things in mind.”
‘Who do you belong to?,’ asked the wedding photographer, to our 19-year-old foster son.
“’He’s ours,’ I said. His eyes met mine for just a second. He smiled.”
‘Every one of the police officers and EMT’s agreed, his car seat, and the fact he was properly restrained in it, is what kept him from being seriously injured or killed.’
“I could hear my grandson crying behind me, yelling ‘YaYa, I falling!’”
‘As the contractions grew closer together, with each ring I was nervous his Wi-Fi had gone out.’
“My first pregnancy ended in an induction that lasted 3 days. I was terrified that was going to happen again. I knew John would not be able to sit at his computer for 3 days, and the longer labor was, the less likely he would be able to stay by the computer.”