“‘Do you know who Lisa and Jerry are?’ Again, I nodded yes. I recognized my parents’ names. ‘Do you know who Jamee and Isabella are?’ I couldn’t recall. The names seemed foreign. My own children.”
‘Do you know where you are?’ I shook my head yes. ‘Do you know who I am?’ Yes, I nodded, grabbing his wedding band. Then, Jeremy left the room. I coded 3 more times.’
‘I told her, ‘Your mom is here.’ I admit, her appearance is shocking to most people.’: Mom gives birth to daughter with severe birth defects
“The nurses started whispering I didn’t want to see my own daughter, that I was rejecting her. After hearing those comments, I got up. I touched her face. Sometimes it’s impossible to not be uncomfortable when people stare at us in the street, and see her as an alien. I dream they can see her like I do, as a beautiful little girl.”
‘Expect problems,’ she told us. I had heard those words before, yet my brain couldn’t make sense of them. ‘What kind of problems?,’ I asked, my voice trembling.’
“A dark thought crossed my mind. ‘Maybe David will die, and we’ll be able to forget this whole thing ever happened.’ As soon as that thought came, it was quickly followed by another. ‘God, please, please don’t let my baby die!’”
‘Trisomy 21. We celebrated the news! They have a marvelous beauty and we long to share it with the world.’: Family celebrates twins’ Down syndrome diagnosis
“My husband announced he canceled his vasectomy and was willing to ‘try for one more.’ I propped up in disbelief, listening to the Doppler’s drumming. Two babies? Twins!? We had no idea what the first one had in store.”
‘My son died of the flu in only 48 hours. On Christmas Day. He hadn’t yet received his vaccine.’: Mom loses son to influenza, claims ‘good health’ does not protect against the flu
“I delayed my child’s flu shot for a wellness visit after the holidays. Leon never made it to that appointment. I let his flu shot slip through the cracks because we spent our time and energy on the holidays. I continue to feel the weight of his absence every day, in every corner of our home.”
‘I woke up being wheeled to the ICU in the worst pain imaginable. All I could silently mouth was ‘How’s my baby?’ I needed a doctor to believe me.’
“I was frustrated and angry. I know my body and I know that this isn’t a migraine!”
‘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.’”
‘She lived for 2 months and 3 days. I’ve never been so anxious to get to heaven.’ Mom of twins’ grief over loving her ‘beautiful daughter on earth and one in heaven’
“Their hearts were perfect, puffy lips, eyes, ten fingers and ten toes each, we had been blessed. Nothing showed any signs of any issues to come, but they came.”
3-year-old who battled traumatic complications from FLU-like symptoms FINALLY heads home after 44 days
“I am still in shock that our little boy was sleeping on my lap, throwing the football, running around with the dog and just starting to show as being sick. And today he is on life support,” his mother wrote when the harrowing ordeal began.
