“Please don’t take your life today. The world is so much better with you in it. More than you realize, stay.”
- Love What Matters
- Heroes
“Please don’t take your life today. The world is so much better with you in it. More than you realize, stay.”
“As we wait for an ambulance, hundreds of Chinese people walk by and also assume the worst. Rather than let the cops have to address everyone one at a time, I stand off to the side and tell people what happened to set the record straight. It’s the least I can do.”
“I will never stop talking about it – to challenge the stigma so no one has to feel embarrassment and shame.”
“I wanted to be a doctor since the very first time I met my Pediatrician, Dr. Peeden, and worked tirelessly to reach that goal. But what happens when you reach your goals and find that you are completely miserable and lost so much along the way?”
“I had my 20-week anatomy scan. This is always my favorite appointment, where the sonographer details every portion of the growing baby, and I go home to put a perfect sonogram photo on the fridge. This appointment was different.”
“The girl in the hospital bed who could barely walk across the room wouldn’t believe she’d be walking her baby in a stroller, with her trusty poodle by her side, taking care of a home, husband, and a baby all while working full time.”
Plastic is strong, flexible, and built to last. This is why plastic isn’t the problem. The problem is that we didn’t have a good plan for its future. So now it is packed into landfills, burned at the edges of towns sending toxic smoke into the air, and there are continents of it floating at sea killing precious wildlife.
At birth, little Betty weighed just 34 grams, or 1.2 ounces, and fit in the palm of a human hand.
“My wife says I’m getting weird. She says I need to make friends. So I’m making pancakes.”
“I admitted myself to a psychiatric facility. My husband went back to our newborn by himself, without paternity leave. I want to make sure other bipolar women don’t give birth without being prepared.”