“He would scream bloody murder to get in the bath tub, and became obsessed with wearing ‘soft’ clothes. It was like walking on eggshells since an explosion could happen at any moment for no reason. I chalked it up to him being a toddler, with a new baby brother and all the changes military life brings. Over time, I knew this was not the case.”
“Why don’t you just use Tia’s eggs and you could have a cute brown baby!”
“I’m not sure who people picture when they think of heroin addicts, so, I’d like to introduce you to mine.”
“I had been induced at 41 weeks pregnant, and after 4 days of drugs, and labor, and 3 hours of pushing, it ended in the middle of the night in an operating room. I mourned the loss of a ‘natural birth’ for months, for years.”
“Seriously people. It’s 2018. We shouldn’t even have to do ‘nurse-ins’ or fight for our right to feed our babies in public. It is absurd to me that people still don’t ‘get it.'”
“You’d never get into a taxi with a sleepy driver right? Or trust a lifeguard who is dozing off by the pool? Or hire a security guard who is constantly yawning and too exhausted to react in a crisis?”
“I did what most of us do, but know we shouldn’t. I Googled ‘heart-shaped uterus’ and its risk factors. What I found on the internet gave me a panic attack. Why didn’t I know about this during my first pregnancy? If we had known, could we have saved him?”
“In that moment, I faced the biggest decision of my life. Either go back to the lifestyle, with no guarantee of ever making it back out alive; or fight for my life with everything I had. I had to fight.”
“My first thought was, ‘Oh my gosh! What has happened, is everyone okay?!’”
“I’ve never felt so many emotions at once in my life, then I saw them pulling in the driveway. I could do nothing but cry. I was finally able to hold my baby.”
