“They need someone to hold them at night to mend the holes in their hearts. They need someone to say, ‘It’s going to be okay,’ when tears come, or ‘Good job, buddy,’ when they start pedaling their tricycle on their own.”
‘Should I let them call me mommy? I’m not their REAL mom.’: Foster mom urges ‘let them decide what they need’
‘We could always give you one of ours.’: Adoptee, mom of 3 becomes birth mom in adoption
“My parents freaked out. ‘You’ll ruin your family.’ I was only doing what my mother had done for my parents. We hugged so hard when those two pink lines finally appeared.”
‘This wasn’t your ‘mom-loses-her-crap-sometimes’ situation. I felt like a pressure cooker.’: Mom battles depression, ‘I’m a better mother when I’m my best self’
“There was a miscommunication about bringing my son lunch at school, and as a result, he was upset. I felt awful. The incident was small, but it pushed me over the edge. And I EXPLODED.”
‘Will my body do its job?’ There was less than a 50% survival rate.’: After battling infertility, high-risk pregnancy, couple turn to surrogate for second child
“It was the happiest day of our lives, yet we had to grieve the loss of our future children. I have never loved another woman’s bump as much as I loved hers.”
‘We can’t see any arms.’ I was chasing shadows and clinging to hope there was a mistake.’: Mom gives birth to son with TAR Syndrome, ‘No arms? No problem!’
“Why does EVERYTHING have sleeves? The feeling of being inadequate hit me like a freight train. I didn’t sleep. I didn’t eat. ‘How are we supposed to raise a child with no arms?’”
‘We want to donate 2 embryos to you!’ They became family. They gave us another chance.’: Couple trying to conceive for 7 years try donor embryos
“‘I have something I want to tell you, but I don’t know how, so I’m just going to say it.’ I replied, ‘Go for it sister!’ She changed our lives FOREVER.”
‘Every day in the cycle of wake up, feed, clean, repeat, you’d think I’d be able to handle it all. I STILL get burnt out.’: Overwhelmed mama urges ‘this is the messy truth behind motherhood’
“Breastfeeding a toddler amidst mounds of laundry is an average daily task. Just because we make it LOOK easy, doesn’t mean it is.”
‘I could forget I was dumpy and self-conscious. I could forget I was ME. THAT girl wasn’t afraid.’: Mom shares emotional journey to sobriety
“I HAD to stop before I destroyed the humans who loved me through every single moment of my life.”
The Risks Of Breast Implants
“It’s too late for me, I’ll never get better.”
‘Mom, I know it’s hard. I love you two more than you think.’ I felt like a failure.’: Autism mom shares ode to daughter, ‘I wonder if she knows how incredibly special she is’
“She let me sleep when she got up and wanted breakfast. She shut my door, then turned on his show and got him a drink. I wonder if she knows the guilt I felt.”
‘Are they all from the same father?’ I told him I’d love to have 6 babies, but here we are with 11.’: Mom of 11 shares the challenges and beauty of big family life
“‘Do you own a TV?’ If I had a dollar for every time we were asked that, we would be rich. We have days when we don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but that’s the best part of having a big family.”
‘What’s lor-aze-pum?’ I decided to tell them the truth. It’s life. It’s reality.’: Mom shares lesson in vulnerability, ‘Even if it’s uncomfortable, it’s okay to ask for help’
“If they ask me about something, I will simply tell them. Only the most bad*ss people I know allow themselves to be vulnerable.”
‘I was 20 pounds over the weight limit. ’This is it, Bekkah. You have to change.’: Mom credits ‘the power of a mother’s love’ with kickstarting incredible weight loss journey
“After just under 30 pounds of weight loss, I became pregnant. I was terrified. I had not been below 300 pounds in five years, but I knew what I needed to do.”
There’s No Prize For Burnt Out Mother Of The Year, Take A F**king Break
“You don’t get kudos for trying to do it all while neglecting your health.”
‘If my boys were sick or struggling, I wondered if this was a curse because they weren’t meant to be here.’: Mom battling infertility has IVF twins and speaks about guilt
“‘Are they natural?’ Which really means, ‘Did you make these twins by yourself, or did you need help?’ I couldn’t run from the fact that nature, or God, never intended me to be a mom.”
‘Your daughter’s heart will have to be stopped to repair it.’: Mom shares daughter’s diagnoses of VSD, Aorta Coarctation, thankful ‘her surgery is just a distant memory’
“How could such a small heart already have to stop beating? All I wanted was for them to just stop mine instead. I wanted them to take my heart to fix hers.”
‘Mama, there is NOTHING more important than this. Nothing.’: Young mom urges others to cherish every moment
“How many more times will they crawl up next to you and ease their tiny body against yours for comfort? The chores will always be there, but this second in time is just that; a split second.”
‘I said to my 16-year-old, ‘If something ever happens to me and dad, don’t be surprised if I end up with a woman.’: Mom of 4 comes out, ‘I finally came home to myself’
“I craved a level of intimacy in which he wasn’t capable of giving. He’d say, ‘If you want that, you need to be with a woman.’”
‘These women are AMAZED someone they don’t know has made something for them.’: Charity partners with Annie’s Kit Clubs to make scarves for women escaping abuse, ‘It’s impacted thousands of lives’
“Every woman who flees abuse deserves a comfort scarf.”
‘You tried to jump out of a moving car.’ I woke up with strange men far away from home.’: Mom overcomes mental health struggles, suicide attempts to become advocate
“During the exam, the doctor asked me casually, ‘Have you been having sexual intercourse?’ The shame was hard to bear. I didn’t like the life I had chosen, so I tried to leave it.”
‘She struggled to get out of bed. It was like giving up her own child.’: Foster dad shares his appreciation for his wife’s role, ‘I am so proud of the heart she has’
“I take it for granted until I am the one sitting in the courthouse waiting an hour for a 10-minute hearing. There is still so much I cannot make up for.”
‘We’re here for you.’ Foster care isn’t all broken or messy.’: Foster mom reflects on the beauty of foster care, ‘It’s not all hard’
“I am rooting and fighting for them to leave me and for my heart to be ripped apart. It is priceless, heartbreaking, and beautiful.”
I’ve Had Mastitis 7 Times
“I should have listened to my body.”
‘To you, this may look like a normal night before trash day. To me, it’s so much more.’: Man thanks ‘selfless’ birth mothers for turning him into a dad in touching moment
“Sometimes it takes a highchair to snap you back into reality.”
‘I came out to my dad, and he DIDN’T take it well. ‘I will TAKE AWAY your independence.’: Gay adoptee with cerebral palsy urges, ‘live your life on your own terms’
“I knew I was gay around 14 years old. However, because of homophobia and lack of tolerance for people with disabilities, I kept my mouth shut while SECRETLY falling in love many times.”