“Within hours, we received a case about an expecting mom. ‘She picked you!’ I cried the same tears of joy as when I found out we were pregnant.”
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“Within hours, we received a case about an expecting mom. ‘She picked you!’ I cried the same tears of joy as when I found out we were pregnant.”
“The adoption paperwork sat on my table. ‘Are we doing this?’ There was no question, the answer was YES! One year later, I got a call from a strange number. ‘A baby was born yesterday. It’s their biological sibling. Can you pick her up from the hospital tomorrow?’ My mouth flew open. Just when I thought my journey was done, it was only the beginning.”
“We’re the family who sit around the dinner table and talk about our day. We’re the neighbors who bake you cookies or pies. Our place in this world is EARNED, not owed.”
“The divorce left me with barely any dignity. Then I met Jim. We both knew what it was like to live with nothing, to sleep on couches, to have next to nothing to our names.”
“I was newly engaged, planning the beautiful merger of our lives and families. The sky was the limit! Then I felt something alarming at the top of my breast, something that didn’t belong.”
“My husband joked, ‘You should do a presentation with all of the logistics.’ I presented one the next week.”
“We were tired of being peed on. ‘Go back to bed, I’m not cleaning up another mess.’ We cut off drinking water a couple hours before bed. Her desire for water increased.”
“The NICU is not for the weak. It’s an experience handed out to only the strongest of people.”
“Now, as we prepare for the third time around, I realize all I wish they had told us was, ‘It will be okay.'”
“When I was out during the day, I was being who people needed me to be, then I would come home and put my dukes up. I felt like an imposter in the life I had built.”