“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.”
‘The past few years have included countless doctors appointments, medications, phone calls, specialists, 2 failed IUIs, and dozens of negative pregnancy tests.’
‘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…”
‘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.”
‘Anxiety attacks aren’t always hyperventilating, rocking back and forth.’
“It took multiple trips to the doctors, hospitals and many, MANY appointments to discover what I was suffering from was actually anxiety.”
‘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.”
‘At 18, it was traumatic to be told I was not going to carry my own child’: Cancer survivor, military spouse beats infertility odds to get pregnant with ‘miracle baby’
“Knowing cancer cells were multiplying in my body was a helpless feeling. She is a fighter already just like her momma, she is our miracle baby.”
‘I had absolutely no idea that was the last morning I would ever clean up after him.’
“We don’t realize just how meaningful a pair of combat boots by the door really are.”
‘It is not my job to be a decoration at the beach’: Strangers unite to write ‘hurtful words’ on each other to ‘wash away’ negativity, celebrate their ‘bikini bodies’
“We found there is a common bond, among every single one of us, regardless of body type, that we have been shamed by others, and it was time to wash those words away.”
