“The final push ended up happening on the toilet after my midwife suggested emptying my bladder, and while sitting there a contraction came, so I gave a push and out came his head!”
I Gave Birth To My Child While Peeing On The Toilet
‘Today was Mommy day and she didn’t come.’ His bright blue eyes filled with tears. ‘What can I do to help?,’ I asked, my heart aching. ‘A hug Mama, you make it better.’
“Halfway through the store in the paper towel aisle I looked down and noticed. He was abnormally quiet. I said his name, and as he looked up I saw the tears streaming down his face. I crouched down to see what was the matter.”
‘I shouted, ‘Help my mom! She can’t breathe!’ I saw a priest coming toward me, this was either a dream or we were dead.’
“I remember whispering, ‘Don’t leave me.’ She barely whispered in Vietnamese, ‘I can’t breathe.'”
I used to be someone who ‘had it all,’ but ‘no one asked me if I was okay.’
“Why do people who seem to have it all end their life? Why would ANYONE end their life? Those are questions I wondered growing up, never being able to understand how someone could be in so much pain inside, that dying was the only solution.”
Wife with dementia ‘listens’ to husband’s story for 15 minutes before cracking a joke, which ‘gives him a sliver of hope she is still there’
“It was perfectly timed. That is all he needs to get him through each new day.”
‘Those two names take my breath away.’: The special birthday gift that brought this mom to tears
“They passed away within two months of being born, never making it to their first birthday.”
When You (And Your Nursery) Are Left Empty
“Twenty-seven days after Cayden’s death I opened that door. But I wasn’t ready for it. I went in to iron my skirt on the ironing board but everything froze, including me.”
‘If you’re having trouble losing weight, CHECK YOUR THYROID. Before I was medicated, I was sick, sad and dying.’
“My highest weight, at 4’11”, was 230 pounds. Yeah, that’s what you call a dangerous BMI. I was terrified, afraid I’d die in my sleep. My boyfriend rushed me to the hospital after finding me barely conscious in my car in a Walmart parking lot at 2 a.m.”
‘Abby’s story began by being born in a toilet. David was autistic. Karen was discovered locked in a bedroom. Sabrina functions at 18-24 months. Each one is perfect in their own way.’
“This is a picture that was taken at our 4th adoption. Unable to have children, my husband and I turned to fostering to adopt.”
‘I’ve never mentioned this, but your dad was in Vietnam and was around that toxic chemical called Agent Orange.’
“Flash forward to 38 years old. I was diagnosed with cancer, again. AND, was going through a painful divorce.”