“I mourned the loss of a ‘natural birth’ for months, for years.”
When Your Delivery Is The Dreaded Unplanned C-Section
It’s Time To Let Moms Sleep
“You’d never get into a taxi with a sleepy driver, right? Or trust a life guard who is dozing off by the pool? Or hire a security guard who is constantly yawning and too exhausted to react in a crisis?”
No, You Can’t Turn ‘Mom Mode’ Off
“It’s the way that a ‘night away’ belongs only to your physical body, because your heart and mind stay put with the ones you leave behind.”
‘I received a text from my mom that said, ‘Stop what you’re doing and start praying.”
“My first thought was, ‘Oh my gosh! What has happened, is everyone okay?!’”
‘If you have to move 7,000 miles to get your miracle, IT IS WORTH IT!’
“I’ve never felt so many emotions at once in my life, then I saw them pulling in the driveway. I could do nothing but cry. I was finally able to hold my baby.”
‘You can tell me to screw off BUT it’s pouring, my daughter was supposed to have senior pictures outside. She’s in a wheelchair; can we come inside and take some pics?’: Family blown away by Starbucks employee’s act of kindness
“After getting inside we were greeted with hot chocolates (made with soy milk because they were unsure of allergies… who thinks that far into it?”
‘I was sad we weren’t pregnant together, we knew we had to do something!’
“I knew I wanted to show off my new puppy like people do with their newborns and marriages because it was where I’m at in life. .People may think it’s excessive or silly, but results were absolutely heartwarming.”
‘The kids are being nightmares’: Every now and then while I’m at work I get that dreaded text message
“Sometimes I see it and forget to even reply because I’m ‘busy’. We speak when I’m on my way home from work and by the time I get home they are already in bed. I missed it. She had to do it on her own.”
‘I cannot express what it feels like to carry around a dead baby for a month. I wanted to claw out of my body.’: After her month-long miscarriage, woman says she would ‘never wish this pain on anyone’
“Our doctor joked about the possibility of seeing triplets on the ultrasound. I was dizzy, so very dizzy. I laid down on the table and exposed my stomach. I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready for my heart to be broken again. He put the wand on my stomach, and I knew instantly. I couldn’t see a baby. My doctor was quiet. I told him there was nothing there. It wasn’t a question. I knew.”
‘He passed away on Friday. The work was done.’ Grandfather refuses to let himself die until the chores were done on his farm
“He didn’t know who we were at times. He didn’t know where he was. He couldn’t do anything independently. But he knew he had things to do. The lawnmower blade needed sharpening, the hay needed to be bailed. He had work to do.”