“First of all, shame on her. If anything is disgusting, it is those words. YES, my body has changed quite dramatically since my pre-baby days, as you can see.”
‘DISGUSTING. I don’t know what husband would ever want to come home to that.’ That’s how someone recently responded to my postpartum body.’
‘He told his friend ‘I feel off,’ and collapsed. Micah busted the front door down to get to my son’s wife. By the time she got to him, he was gray with his eyes rolled upward.’
“‘Mom, come here,’ she said. I replied, ‘Just a minute.’ She yelled louder, ‘Mom come here NOW!’ She handed me the phone and said, ‘Michael is getting CPR.’ I had to have her repeat what she said. I was in shock.”
‘My boyfriend closed-fist punched me in the face, knocking me off my feet. My 230-pound boyfriend split open my face. The past 6 months of my life have felt like a slow torture.’: Woman recalls escaping domestic abuse relationship
“My boyfriend of almost 2 years came home from a 7-month deployment. Two days after he had been back, I found out he had not been faithful. When I found out, I proceeded to ask him to leave. He refused.”
‘I think the doctor is going to want to discuss things on the ultrasound with you.’: Parents overcome son’s dwarfism diagnosis
“The doctor told us he was confident our baby had either Trisomy 13 or Trisomy 18. When I asked what that meant, he stoically stated that it meant our baby was not going to survive. He was PERFECT – and he was ours.”
‘We gave her a hard time. She frowned at us. Then said, ‘We’re doing it.’ Reluctantly we gathered around, goofing off and teasing the entire time. She stood right next to me.’
“Suddenly, I desperately needed to see her face again. I scrambled through boxes and boxes of family photos but she wasn’t in any of them.”
‘She might not see her first birthday.’ Her right arm looked like a little chicken wing. I knew it was urgent.’: Couple loses daughter to Spinal Muscular Atrophy, ‘Love can heal any wound’
“She couldn’t hold her head up and struggled to breathe. Every single doctor said, ‘There’s nothing else that can be done.’ I felt so helpless. But there was nowhere else I would’ve rather been. As we heard her breathing rattle with fluid, I cried out to God to end her suffering.”
‘As our children become teens, they tell us THEY WANT independence. That THEY NEED it. They tell us they are grown up. That we are suffocating them.’
“’We don’t want a baby who is too attached.’ So we spend those early years pushing our children towards independence. They don’t need us as much as they think they do. We tell them they are big boys or girls. And we push. And we push.”
‘I received a message. My entire body began shaking. To the woman who called me SICK for talking about my children who died, my heart hurts for you.’: Woman addresses criticism during grief
“You need to get past this, it’s so sick. Please, please get help. It’s so sick. Lay them to rest and move on. Get therapy but don’t drag your husband and child through this. So so sick. Please stop.”
‘My friend Erica was married to Chris. Chris came with baggage, his mother. To put it bluntly, Chris’ mother was toxic. From the moment Erica got serious with Chris, Chris’ mother was mad.’
“When Erica didn’t act a certain way, she ‘punished’ her by showing favoritism to her other grandchildren and leaving Erica and Chris’ kids out.”
‘I didn’t know who the father was. I continued to use drugs, until I received life-changing news. I was not expecting one baby, or two.’: Woman overcomes addiction, gives birth to triplets
“I began prostituting, and living out of hotels. When my daughter was 1-year-old, I left my 5th rehab facility and began getting sick. I assumed this was related to my hepatitis C. It wasn’t.”
