“I was just a child and I was having to take care of my mother. Making sure she ate, making sure she didn’t drown in her bowl of soup, and making sure she didn’t fall asleep with a cigarette in her mouth and burn the house down. She was supposed to be taking care of me, not me taking care of her.”
‘Sis, we need to talk. The doctor called. You’re pregnant.’ I was only 14. I just wanted to be a kid.’: Teen mom beats all odds, now mom of 3
‘The excitement of a normal poop, the pain seeing your child poked 1,000 times, the strength to continue walking inside.’: Hospital mom describes emotional journey during NICU Awareness Month
“The late night calls of a parent, the early morning calls of an emergency, pressing a button on an incubator before you can touch your child, the longing to rock your baby to sleep just one time.”
‘He was born that way ’cause of his mother. It’s gotta be her genes, something is wrong with her.’ Rumors flooded about our little one.’: Mom to son with limb differences urges for kindness, ‘We are all beautiful humans’
“Those unkind souls didn’t know I’d grab a pair of baby shoes and cry because my son couldn’t wear them. No idea I’d put away so many pants and shorts because his little leg wouldn’t fit. But despite the unexpected, when they placed him in my arms, I couldn’t have loved him more. He was mine. My baby. My special prince. He was taking his own slow steps in life, his own way.”
‘It was a war just to keep my newborn ALIVE.’: Medical mom praises daughter born with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, dwarfism
“Have you ever had a medical professional look you in the eye and tell you it’s a MIRACLE your child is alive, and then say they have no medical reasoning as to how they ARE alive? Children born with no immune system unknowingly die from the common cold… Bella survived septic shock and 4 bowel surgeries.”
‘After miscarriage 3, all the doctor said was, ‘Have you tried Adipex to lose weight? I sell it at my spa.’: Woman delivers rainbow baby on cusp of giving up, raises infertility awareness
“I left his office that day and immediately made an appointment at a completely different office. In a sense, I’d given up. To my surprise, I got the faintest positive on a cheap 88¢ Walmart test. Our hopes were at rock bottom, but we needed to believe in this little miracle.”
‘Something’s off with your scans.’ We left in shock. This body wasn’t MINE anymore.’: Stage 4 endometriosis warrior has 2 miracle babies, ‘Kids are like having your heart on the outside of your body’
“People don’t talk about ‘women issues.’ ‘So many people out there have it WORSE.’ You’re labeled as dramatic, and doctors disregard what you’re feeling.”
‘At 30 weeks pregnant, he put down the wand, took me into his office, and began to talk about a recurrence.’: Three-time cancer survivor delivers miracle baby during chemo
“I was sobbing uncontrollably. My husband told them to unhook me and washed my bald head and pregnant belly. It was too much. I was not OK with subjecting my baby to this too.”
‘We came without a car seat because we were told we wouldn’t be able to take her home. It was an absolute MIRACLE.’: Mom spends 9 miraculous days with daughter born with Alobar Holoprosencephaly
“The day we took her home was INCREDIBLE. We drove home with her hooked up to machines in the car with the sun shining down on us. Allison got to go home with her family.”
‘6 months after Scott’s death, I woke up and decided it was time to take a pregnancy test.’: Widow births IVF baby after husband’s sudden death, ‘He’s the medicine my heart needed’
“‘I’ll call you when we land.’ My phone started going crazy. Holding his hand, I promised him I would move forward with building our family.”
‘Someone up there really wants you to be a mom. There are THREE heartbeats here.’: Mom welcomes rainbow triplets
“I found myself in the bathroom, peering down at that familiar stick. There it was. That blue line. That crippling fear history will repeat itself. I didn’t know if I could survive this again.”
