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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.”

‘The other day I read I was a victim. Because my son died, I am considered a victim. I threw the book away.’

“I never thought I would laugh again. I didn’t deserve it. I lost a child. I had no right to be happy.”

‘Lottie is my why. She is the reason I do not go out while sick and the reason (more importantly) I don’t take my kids out in public while sick.’

“Look at this sweet girl. Kids have died because they ‘had’ to finally leave the safe haven of their house, and ended up catching RSV from a shopping cart, or a visit to meet Santa.”

‘I throw organic produce and Goldfish crackers in my cart. I am connected to technology 24/7, yet limit my kids’ screen time.’ I Millennial Mom so hard.

“I treat myself to $5 coffees, and pinch every last penny I can using the grocery store coupon app. I order almost everything online to be delivered, yet can’t stand that Wal-Mart doesn’t have cashiers anymore. I am an oxymoron, yet not a moron at all.”

I thought, ‘Oh, I must not be as far along as I thought.’ But as time went on, I said, ‘Is something wrong?’ The tech said, ‘Yes, we should hear a heartbeat.’

“I was so excited to see my baby I thought NOTHING of this statement.”

‘He dropped to the ground, red-faced. Hands in a fist, pounding the floor beneath him. Tears flowing. How confusing must all this be for him?’

“You can imagine the response I got from him when I said no. Followed by no again. And then a very firm N-O.”

‘My uterus has not shrinked back yet. The sagging makes my C-section scar hurt.’ Triplet mom gets REAL about her postpartum belly

“I am surprised it has not gotten smaller since my last picture. Kind of disappointing, I must admit, and I am not too happy to share this picture.”

‘I was 32 years old with a dead husband. I wanted to – needed to – feel in control. I worried people would think I was ‘over’ my loss. I wasn’t.’

“I couldn’t control my husband dying unexpectedly, but I could control this ending.”

‘I’ve been counting down!’ It was my last birth. I never have to do this again, but I’m so grateful for the 3 times I have.’: Mom learns to soak in last ‘firsts’ with final baby

“I was still in the stirrups, getting stitched up, talking to my OB. She had no idea how much I had been counting down to this milestone. ‘I never have to do this again!’ She laughed and told me she’d never gotten that answer before. The last birth of our last baby. I had a ‘geriatric uterus’ this pregnancy, being 35.”

‘Right after my grandmother died, I found my mom in her bedroom writing down her thoughts. Through her tears she said: ‘You can read this when I’m done.’’

“I remember all the times I left my home on May Avenue, watching momma wave to me as I pulled away. I know how important that last wave is.”

‘Come on, of all people, you should understand why someone would want to abort a cleft baby.’: Baby has cleft palate surgery, ‘He’s the same boy we fell in love with’

“It was a shock. I didn’t know what I was looking at. There was clearly something wrong on his face, but I had never seen something like that before.”

‘If you ask my boy, he’d tell you, he has two dads and two moms. All 4 of us kept Jaden’s needs before our own. A loving, crazy, enormous, blended family.’

“Kristen was young. So young, I had my reservations. I learned very fast that just because another woman was parenting my child, didn’t mean she was taking my place.”

‘I was having a hard time finding the words – probably because I haven’t had any sleep – to express to my husband why I’m not in the best of moods in the morning.’

“So, I sat down with my coffee and drew him this visual.”

‘I’ve learned my lesson today, NEVER drive in a hail storm! I covered my infant with my body to stop her from getting badly injured.’

“The hail blew out our windows. I could feel the hail like pins and needles on my back.”

‘He may leave the hospital with a baby, but not his wife. He needed to prepare himself.’: Woman survives traumatic birth after HELLP Syndrome diagnosis

“My husband and I arrived at the hospital and settled in to await the arrival of our baby boy. I had no idea that the very bed I was settling in would soon become my death bed. I became frantic. I told my husband to find help immediately. I felt like I was dying, and indeed, I was.”

‘To some, Maddie was just a junkie — when they saw her addiction, they stopped seeing her. And what a loss for them.’

“Though we would have paid any ransom to have her back, any price in the world, this disease would not let her go until she was gone.”

‘It was so big. I had a 3-pound tumor removed. Naively I said, ‘It won’t be cancer, I’m totally healthy and young.’: Woman admits some days ‘really suck’ but she knows cancer will be her ‘greatest blessing’

“I was standing in front of the mirror with tears streaming down my face because I couldn’t wear any of my pants. I had gained quite a bit of weight, but more than that, I had a big lump on my left leg sticking out a good 5 inches. In that moment I knew this lump wasn’t going away. I kept putting it on the back burner because honestly… The sad, bitter truth is I didn’t (and don’t) have health insurance.”