“I wish I never had gone home. Around 2 a.m. we received a call from the hospital. I knew something was terribly wrong.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Why God? She’s innocent. She’s only 6 months old!’ Thoughts of guilt flooded my mind. How could I possibly want to bring another child into this world so soon after losing my daughter?
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Trisomy 18.’ ‘Incompatible with life.’ ‘Why would anyone want a baby like that?’ I didn’t understand how the baby so full of life within me could be THAT sick.
“She was so beautiful in her ultrasounds, yet the doctors would only tell me about how ‘scary’ she would look.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘For every woman unhappy with her postpartum marks, there is one wishing she had them.’ I once was her, the ‘one.’
“Some mama’s go home with only scars and no baby in their arms. For the ‘one’ wishing, hoping, praying for her miracle, this is for you.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘The meaning of support. We were a team. I looked to my husband with tears streaming down my face apologizing for being a failure. He lifted my chin, and told me he was proud of me.’
“My husband was my rock, my foundation, and got my mind where it needed to be. He’s truly my king. It was the most intimate experience laboring with him.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘You are too skinny, not tall enough, and you have never delivered a baby before. You will have an unsuccessful triplet pregnancy.’ That’s what my doctor told me at my first ultrasound.
“’We need to get in the OR now,’ my doctor said. Then she turned to my mom. ‘You need to find Ryan. And pray. She has lost a lot of blood.’”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘As the contractions grew closer together, with each ring I was nervous his Wi-Fi had gone out.’
“My first pregnancy ended in an induction that lasted 3 days. I was terrified that was going to happen again. I knew John would not be able to sit at his computer for 3 days, and the longer labor was, the less likely he would be able to stay by the computer.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘You realize the power of what your body has done’: Mom’s shocked reaction to 9-pound newborn is all-too-relatable
“Growing and delivering a baby takes so much strength!”
By LJ Herman -
‘We had become pregnant and miscarried at the same time’
“I had to experience the absolute high of my first pregnancy and the absolute low of my very first miscarriage. How was I supposed to juggle the feelings of excitement along with the feeling of emptiness?”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I think you better hurry!’ Marine’s wife in labor at his homecoming
“My contractions started about an hour after he boarded his first plane to come home.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I wanted him to be happy, if it was with someone else – so he could be a father, so be it.’ Woman pregnant after choosing to just ‘Be Still’
“Didn’t anyone know how much we wanted to be parents, how much I wanted to carry a child of my own?”
By Eliza Murphy -
