“If you wouldn’t question someone’s balding head then you shouldn’t question a child’s flapping arms either.”
‘No one stops the wheelchairs, the elderly, or those with physical markers of disability. Just our family.’: Mom of 2 kids with autism shares PSA on traveling
‘As they laid him on my chest, I let out the exhale I was holding onto for 12 months. I could finally breathe again.’: Mom details emotional journey to 2 angel babies, 1 rainbow baby
“I KNEW in my bones I was meant to be a mom to a baby here on earth.”
‘I am so tired of breaking up fights. I am so tired of forced playdates, folding laundry, cooking food that won’t get eaten, and speaking in limited vocabulary.’: Mom admits ‘I am so spent’
“This smile I paint on my face every day is hiding a whirlwind of emotions inside me screaming to be let out. Some people will read this and think how horrible I am, but I am so spent.”
‘Almost every night I got a motion alert from my security camera.’: Neighbor builds racetracks for little boy who plays in driveway
“Something needed to be done.”
‘A baby boy thought to have Down syndrome has been dumped in the bushes. Do you want him?’: Social worker becomes foster mom to abandoned babies with end-of-life needs
“Life is strange. I didn’t simply wake up one morning thinking caring for dying babies would be a good idea. But know what? We wouldn’t have it any other way.”
‘The diagnosis was so out of left field we were not only fighting for our child’s life, but our relationship.’: Special needs parent opens up about high divorce rate, ‘This should be addressed more often’
“They say having kids will test the relationship in ways you could never imagine, but when your child is thrown a diagnosis from hell, your relationship can fall apart just as quickly as that diagnosis was given.”
‘Read it again or else your fear will come true.’ An image of my mom flashed in my mind, lying on an ambulance stretcher.’: Woman shares journey to motherhood through OCD, anxiety
“I jolted awake multiple times throughout the night just to check her – and recheck her – and recheck her again. I would wake up, scared she was missing or strangling in our sheets. I worried she would be kidnapped.”
7 Tips To Help Manage Grief
“After the funeral is over though, what’s next? Here are just a few ways I have found that helped ease the pain of my grief.”
‘One of the babies is transferring blood to the other.’ Our world came to a sudden and frightening halt.’: Mom details emotional journey with TTTS, birth of twinless twin
“‘There are two babies in there.’ The more people I told, the happier I was about the two little lives growing inside of me. But as soon as the doctor came into the room, I burst into tears.”
‘Please don’t leave me! I don’t want to die! I thought about my parents and wondered if this was how my life would end.’: College football player paralyzed by distracted driver
“The oncoming car was crossing the double yellow line, coming straight at us. In that moment, I saw the woman who was driving. She was looking down, and the blue light of a device lit her face in the growing darkness around us. I felt my body tensing for the toughest tackle of my life. It was like watching an eerie slow-motion playback from a big game.”