“I woke up 15 minutes later, still delirious when my doctor opened the door. I sat in silence. Click…click…click. The silence continued. I knew something wasn’t right. I put one arm on his back and one over my eyes and began to sob. I am a ‘fixer’ and I couldn’t fix this.”
‘It was happening all over again. My husband kissed me. ‘I love you.’ We had one egg left. The last thing I remember was tears falling as they put a mask on my face.’: Couple battling infertility says ‘you are never gonna keep us down’
‘Their biological dad stopped coming around. I re-married, divorced, co-parented, and married the same man again.’: Woman escapes toxic relationship, marries new husband twice, ‘it was the happiest moment of our lives!’
“It was horrific. Todd and I decided to separately seek counseling. We were no longer in a relationship, but we knew that we had to be the best co-parents to the girls. That same year, we were engaged to be married on our original wedding anniversary…again.”
‘Is she going to die? Is she going to be ok?,’ I wailed hysterically. She paused. ‘I hope so.’ I started to see spots. ‘I feel lightheaded.’: Mom almost loses daughter to rapid decline from pneumonia
“It started like any other cold. Runny nose, sniffles, a light headache. ‘I don’t feel good, mom,’ she complained that morning, 5 days before. ‘Me neither,’ I groaned. I was suffering as well, and I assumed we both had the same thing.”
‘They tell you to hold the baby. They tell you to forget your to-do list because that sweet babe is worth snuggling. And you forget to hold the baby.’: Mom urges ‘there is nothing more important’
“But they fail to mention how that baby grows. That little one who once rested so perfectly upon your chest doesn’t fit there quite so well anymore. And you forget to hold the baby. But that babe, your growing babe, still needs you.”
‘She will save many lives. There are going to be two kids who make it a lot longer because of her.’: Parents urge organ donation after infant loss
“They expected her last breath to happen any moment. An hour goes by. A nurse still by my side waiting to call time of death. The doctors are shocked. We all are. We were not expecting this.”
‘Suddenly the officer sits down, pulls out lunch. He not only takes away your hunger, but your loneliness too.’: Woman touched by officer’s act of kindness for homeless man, ‘We are all just human’
“Everything you own fits in a backpack. You look up to see a uniformed officer walking towards you. Your mind flutters thinking of everything you might be doing wrong. I don’t know this man or this officer, but what I do know is today they made a difference.”
‘Last night I was a mama alone in the ER with my sick baby. As my feverish child sobbed, I paced the waiting room. There was panic across faces.’: Mom thankful for community kindness during ER visit
“But as I would learn, I wasn’t actually alone.”
‘I sank deep into my insecurities. Stop talking so much. Tone it down. You come off as too much. Don’t be so ‘you.’: Woman shares ‘miraculous’ changes in self-awareness and assurance
“I knew everything that was wrong with me. I didn’t need a list to point them out in black and white. I’d known since I was little. And I was over it. 35 years of that mess was enough. So, I deleted everything, and I started blank.”
‘I’ll never have a baby because I can’t stay sober.’ I revealed my addiction and her face lit up. Why did she want to pray for me when she was the one dying?’: Woman gives birth to ‘miracle’ baby she was told wouldn’t live
“I got married in the hospital chapel with our closest friends and family. Little CJ got to come out of the NICU to be the tiniest ring bearer in history. His nurses brought him in a little wagon with all his tubes and machines in his preemie tux.”
‘Six little words made my whole world fall apart. ‘Your baby may not make it’ – I jumped off the exam table and threw up in the trash can.’
“I was 22, pregnant with my first baby boy. I should’ve been ecstatic, preparing to welcome my sweet boy. Instead I was attending appointment after appointment to find answers as to what was wrong with him.”
‘I woke up, confused why he hadn’t come to get me. I came downstairs and found him dead on the floor. I was too late.’
“The next day I received a call. It was a voice I hadn’t heard in a while. ‘Hey, remember me?’ It was my dad! I rushed to the hospital in tears. My dad, my best friend, was dying.”
I, The ‘Infertile’ Woman, Got Pregnant 2 Weeks After Meeting The Birth Mom Of Our Adopted Child-To-Be
“I had a missed call. My husband then got a call. We looked at each other… ‘Answer it!’ ‘Louis, are you with Audrey?’ ‘Yes, she can hear you.’ The words she spoke stopped time for me. Everything she said next was hard to process. I was shocked. It all felt right. We felt a calmness that can’t be explained.”
‘Five weeks after Dorothy died, my nephew was born. I was so happy he was here, but was also happy he lived across the country so I didn’t have to see him yet. ‘And,’ she replied.’
“I looked at her puzzled, so she continued. ‘And. You are happy he is here AND you are happy you don’t have to see him right now. You don’t have to choose.’ After we left our session that day, I couldn’t stop thinking about that one little word.”
‘My sister yells into the kitchen for me in a panic. I ran over and our grandma was convulsing, breathing differently and was unresponsive.’
“We were going to pick out my wedding dress. It was just three months until my wedding date and my grandma was still feeling decent. Then, my worst nightmare was coming true. I made the decision to have our wedding in the hospital in less then 24 hours.”
‘Some of the best Grandmas live in heaven. That’s what I tell my sons when they ask where Nana lives, and if we can go to her house, just once, to see what it’s like there.’
“I want them to know they will lose people. People they love, people that are important to them. But just because we lose someone, doesn’t mean they are gone.”
‘I mentioned how different my hair felt. Her eyes widened as she touched my head. My thick blonde locks were noticeably thinner.’: Mom learns important lesson in not letting stress consume your life
“That day at the hair salon was pivotal. As I sat with foils covering my head, I knew I had to make some changes. For so many years I had put others before me, it was time to take control of my life.”
‘I started the dishes, but the toddler pooped her pants, so I had to change her. Do you know toddlers can produce purple poo after eating blueberries? I didn’t until I called 911.’: Mom hilariously recalls her hectic day
“The lady called me an abomination. There was a cry in the bedroom. The baby had woken up. Oh wow he smelled a little like cheese, not quite blue cheese, but definitely aged cheddar.”
‘I have cancer. One of the incurable ones they can’t remove by surgery. It will always come back. I’ve been fighting this for four years, they gave me five.’
“We’re not perfect, but we are perfect for each other. She is my soulmate and the best friend I’ve ever had.”
I Reunited With My Birth Daughter 17 Years After Giving Her Up For Adoption
“Every year on her birthday, every Mother’s Day, every holiday, every moment that passed I felt her absence.”
My Son Still Needs To Be Cuddled To Sleep At 4 Years Old
“People often ask how I stay so patient. The truth is, I don’t. Not always. But all I know is that he still needs me to get to sleep.”
‘She ate less than a bite of hummus before her 1st birthday and ended up with swollen eyelids and face, hives all over her body, projectile vomiting, and extreme drowsiness.’
“The scariest moments of my life so far have been seeing my baby having this reaction. Knowing this could happen again, and possibly with a worse outcome is terrifying.”
‘There are moments I just want to walk away from it all. But even more I want to walk away from the super hard parts of parenting.’
“I am ridiculously unqualified for most of what I do each day and I sometimes find myself looking around for an actual grown up.”
‘I was lost at 4 a.m. I needed help and this man assured me he could help me get home. In a puddle of my own blood, he left me in the dark.’: Woman recounts attack while traveling internationally
“He called out in Spanish, “I have your phone, you can’t call anyone.”
A Stranger At The Grocery Store Taught Me A Parenting Lesson I’ll Never Forget
“I was pushing my shopping cart filled with children and food when an older gentleman approached us. He looked straight at me and said, ‘I want to tell you something.’”
‘I was standing in the checkout line at the grocery store. I had just had my third baby a month earlier. I will never forget what happened while we were waiting.’: Woman receives important life lesson from total stranger
“I turned back toward my grocery cart to begin putting my items on the conveyor with one arm while using the other to hold the baby and keep track of the two big kids. To my alarm, my cart was nearly empty.”