“We officially got the great news and shouted it loud for all to hear. We were on cloud 9. Everything was fun and exciting. Until it wasn’t.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I worried my wonderful southern knight would leave me because I couldn’t give him the family he wanted. I started to break down, slowly. I felt so alone.’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Our 14.5 ounce baby girl, with less than a 20% chance of survival, lived. She made it. She survived.’
“She had translucent skin and you could see every bone in her body. I couldn’t believe a child the size of a can of Coke was living.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘My baby died 1 year, 2 months, 22 days, 17 hours and 30 minutes ago.’
“As Logan took his final breath, we felt for his heart beat. When we could no longer feel his heart, we both looked at each other and said, ‘that’s it.’”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘They found a baseball-sized cyst on my ovary’: Mom celebrates overcoming risky pregnancy with Chick-fil-A photo shoot honoring her ‘little nugget’
“I was told it was unlikely we would be able to conceive with the cyst, because the other ovary also had several small cysts as well.”
By LJ Herman -
‘I did not feel like getting glammed up in a field of wildflowers while sweating in the heat’: Mom’s hilarious ice cream binge-eating maternity shoot
“This is not my first rodeo, and let’s be honest — I don’t have the time or the energy anymore to get dolled up to go sit in field and swat mosquitoes while gazing peacefully at my belly.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I had failed at having that family’: Single mother by choice recounts her IVF journey to get her ‘miracle’ daughter on her own
“I spent years contemplating having a child on my own, always holding on to the hope that I would find a husband and have kids. At 33, I gave up that hope. I decided it was time to do it on my own.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘There is no heartbeat’: Devastated mom gives birth to ‘sleeping angel’ stillborn
“They do not give you a guide on how to grieve when you lose a child. While situations like this can tear a family apart, it made mine so much stronger.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘It’s so painful to see your love in this condition’: Dad’s riveting ride of emotions during child’s birth will give you ALL THE FEELS
“They tried for a long time to get pregnant, so it was a truly desired baby.”
By LJ Herman -
ALL THAT GLITTERS: Mom honors lost child with ‘the sparkle she left behind’ in dazzling rainbow baby photos
“We were going to honor Victoria with the sparkle that she left behind with all of us.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Her expression to her miracle baby girl having a baby of her own could not have been captured more perfectly’
“She lost a baby girl just 11 months before I was born, after trying for years to conceive. To get pregnant only months after the tragic loss of a child was, in my parents eyes, a gift from God.”
By Eliza Murphy -
