“I know without a doubt my baby brother Mark put us together to save my life.”
‘Right away I knew something was wrong. When the officer told us that he’s so sorry, but Mark died in a car accident, I completely lost it.’
‘We planned a weekend getaway. Instead, I took him to the ER to learn his cancer battle was coming to an end’: Pizza shop delivers dying man’s favorite slice 225 miles away
“Without hesitation Dalton asked what kind of pizza we wanted and told my father he would bring it to us. My dad clarified we were in Indianapolis, at least 3.5 hours away. Dalton said he understood, and would leave after he closed the store.”
‘A pregnant friend of mine asked me, ‘How is it possible that moms get depression? Isn’t motherhood joyous?’ I spat my wine out in her face.’
“Remember you said in pregnancy, ‘Oh my mother will watch the baby while I rest/recover/get my nails done?’ – only to realize your baby doesn’t want to be anywhere but ON YOU and no one, NO ONE, can look after this baby properly except you?”
‘I had a miscarriage at age 18. Someone told me, ‘It must be because you’re not married.’’
“I started dating my husband at 13 years old. We got married at 19. I had my 1st miscarriage at 20 years old. I didn’t tell anyone. I went back to work the next day, taking orders at a drive-in, while someone was complaining about their kids.”
‘If you joined the gym for the childcare. If crumbs fall out of your bra when you take it off. If the last thing you read all the way through was reviews on a new sippy cup.’
“If you’ve ever dropped your kids off at Sunday School and thought, ‘I wonder if they’d know if we went and got brunch instead.'”
My Best Friend And I Accidentally Got Pregnant, And I Wouldn’t Change A Thing
“I took out my phone and, with a violently shaking hand, I called Egg. ‘I did another, and it’s positive. There’s a cross. It’s faint, but it’s definitely there.'”
‘I was pregnant. Talk about the craziest 9 months of my 16-year-old life. My life changed overnight. I found out I was pregnant in May, days after my sophomore year ended.’
“If you want to see friends come out of the woodwork, get pregnant at 16. Everyone judges every move you make as a 16-year-old mom.”
‘It was so simple for me to accidentally get pregnant with my twins. Why couldn’t I do this for my wife?! I felt as if I was failing her. Something I never wanted to do.’
“This was something we both wanted SO badly, yet everything was going horribly wrong. This wasn’t full of whispers and giggles and kisses like we had thought. This was full of frustration, anger, and disappointment.”
‘He started to vomit a green color. Nurse after nurse continued to say everything was ‘normal.’ Even this green bile? ‘Yeah, that’s normal.’: Mom births baby with Hirschsprung Disease
“As his parents, we knew something was off. We were scared, and it was not being validated by anyone.”
‘I curled up next to my son in the hospital bed, careful not to disturb his chemo dripping into his body. We had been in the hospital for 28 straight days.’
“It did not look like we were going home anytime soon.”