“It will be weird. It will be scary. Your boobs will be sore. Your hands and feet will swell to the size of a pufferfish.”
Dear Pregnant Momma: Once You Hold Your Baby, Everything Else Fades Away
‘I want to see if the vultures think I’m a dead animal’: Shocking things mom learned after she ‘stopped hurrying’ her son’s childhood
“How many times in a day do you tell your child to ‘hurry up?’ Did you ever just STOP and try to get inside their head?”
‘The past few years have included countless doctors appointments, medications, phone calls, specialists, 2 failed IUIs, and dozens of negative pregnancy tests.’
“To all the future moms out there – I see you, and others see you. We know your pain, and we feel your hope. Don’t give up.”
‘We were 27, married for four years, and told we would never be able to get pregnant on our own.’
“As we were preparing to leave he told us to hold on a minute. Silence. Excuse me? Did I just hear you correctly? Say that again please…”
‘How an Army blanket uncovered the truth about my dad’
“I promised myself that if I made it home alive, I’d never sleep on the ground again.”
‘My kid is a jerk. No, I’m serious.’
“It was like as soon as she realized the tooth fairy wasn’t real, she got a dose of the hormone fairy which WAS real, and let me tell you – the hormone fairy is a jerk, too.”
‘I lost my patience with your mom. I didn’t mean to. I love your mother’: Elderly husband’s anguish of feeling ‘broken’ dealing with wife’s dementia
“Dad looks up and says, ‘I lost my patience with your mom.’ I tell him he is carrying a load none of us can imagine and frustration is going to happen sometimes.”
‘Our baby girl would not survive.’: Why the day this mom gave birth to triplets was ‘the biggest regret of my life’
“I felt like a monster. What kind of mother wouldn’t want to hold her own child?”
To The Mom Who Put Her Baby On The Floor At The Airport
“I was privy to a photo taken of you without your permission.”
‘I was 95% sure I was making a mistake that would forever affect my family’: Adoptive mom’s heartfelt admission of taking in a ‘high needs child’
“He was given the prognosis of ‘probably never being able to walk, talk, or become a productive member of society.’ What does that even mean? I can’t think of a fate worse than those cold words.”