“If I could go back, I’d tell her she’ll have alone time again, but it will feel like two hearts wandering in different directions. I’d tell her the memories she’ll lose herself in won’t just be the milestones, but those long nights. That a love like this is a silent language that speaks volumes.”

‘She is moving mountains, even when she loses her footing. She will never forget the pain of fatigue, but she’ll find herself aching to breathe in those cuddles again.’: Mom urges ‘you are enough’

‘I didn’t understand the phrase ‘unconditional love’ until I met my kids.’: Dad shares touching video montage of fatherhood, ‘I will cherish this job forever’
“The harsh reality is I won’t be around forever. One day I’ll pass away just like Kobe Bryant, but his memory, just like our videos, will live on. I hope one day my kids will look back at this footage and remember, without a doubt, this dad absolutely loved his boys.”

‘I heard my name. ‘Are you Suzanne?’ A woman approached me. I was confused, even scared I had done something wrong. ‘Yes?,’ I said nervously.’
“He cried for what felt like 24 straight hours. He felt like an idiot for believing. I didn’t have all the answers. I didn’t really have any.”

‘Whoa! He has some really blonde hair.’ I JUST KNEW. My husband smiled. ‘He’s an albino.’: Mother of 2 sons with albinism says the best thing she can instill in them is ‘confidence’
“The doctor was staring inside me with a flashlight. We realized there was something extra special with him when nurses were coming in to see the ‘baby with the white hair.’ It was so white it would sparkle in the sunlight. My mother in law stared in awe and said, ‘He’s like a special little fairy.’”

I don’t want to ‘get over’ my grief. No, no I do not.
“When he died, I as so angry about his death and so frustrated with some people that I actually envisioned myself at his funeral turning them away if they showed up.”

‘I lost the baby’: Mom thanks ‘miracle’ surrogate after being diagnosed with same pregnancy complication as Kate Middleton
“I simply wrote, ‘This little girl needs her brother or sister. Can anyone help?’ And you know what? Someone replied.”

How a stranger reminded me that raising little ones is magical
I didn’t notice her at first. It was Saturday morning at McDonald’s. I was in the midst of cutting up pancakes, getting straws in milk and generally trying to keep our three sons quiet and (somewhat) under control. And, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a woman, gazing at our table. Her …

‘LOOK! PRINCESS!’ After visiting daughter in NICU, emotional mom thanks real-life prom princess in diner for helping family ‘forget all the troubles of the day’
“Thank you for restoring my faith in strangers… thank you for making my kids happy. And thank you to your prince charming for loaning you to us.”

‘I don’t want to lose this moment.’ Woman captures balancing act of motherhood all mamas will understand
“I didn’t want to get back out of bed tonight; didn’t want to answer your midnight wake up call. But I did, and this moment we’re in– there’s something magical about it.”

‘There was no turning back’: Mom builds magical hidden room through teen’s closet
“As an only child, I had magical thoughts and feelings about hidden worlds that were there if you just looked hard enough.”