“The virus doesn’t make me scared. I know my husband and boys can provide by being the hunters God made them to be. My husband has told us many times, ‘We will not starve.’ I fully believe him.”
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“The virus doesn’t make me scared. I know my husband and boys can provide by being the hunters God made them to be. My husband has told us many times, ‘We will not starve.’ I fully believe him.”
“Everything has shut down. Most of us are going to spend weeks, maybe months feeling restless, worried, and angry. While we’re stuck in our places, take a good hard look around and see all we have. These commodities are BLESSINGS we forget to count.”
“How am I supposed to diaper my child if I can’t afford 20 at a time like you can?”
“One issue a lot of people face is in their time of solitude, they may be confronted with the fact that being by yourself is frightening. Your mind needs to become comfortable being alone. There will be no distraction. Your inner-monologue will inevitably be louder and more present than it ever has before.”
“Preventing a birthing person from having their support team with them – not even a spouse, but ALSO not their doula, trained and contracted to provide them with emotional and physical comfort – is traumatic and brutal, plain and simple.”
“Soon after, I had to watch the online services every week. I’ve been practicing ‘social distancing’ since childhood. You can do it. It is in our control how we deal with it.”
“The instant someone or something reminded me of her, I was ready to lose my sh*t. At that moment, I took a breath. I leaned down to let her look through the necklace and whispered, ‘See, she is here too.’ Let’s face it, everything reminds me of her, and I don’t want to change that.”
“Ricky taps my hand if I try to touch something. THEN, this child pulls out the sanitizer and sprays my hands with it. He waits until I rub it in correctly and looks at me through the corner of his eye to make sure I don’t touch anything again. Ricky knows I am one of the ones who would most certainly die. He has been in the hospital with me more times than I can count.”
“Pretend this is your child just for one second. Now imagine knowing that the fate of your child is largely in everyone else’s hands.”
“Days come and go. But we can do so much more with the moments. The next minute is a chance to make a change.”