“The final straw came on my birthday. My best friend told me my husband had tried to sleep with her while he was drunk. I was in a daze for months.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I was afraid to be alone with him. My phone records were being watched meticulously. I wasn’t allowed to work past a certain time. I felt like I brought this on because I couldn’t give him a child.’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I hadn’t realized this Christmas was the last one we’d spend as a whole family. After dinner, my phone rang. Concerned, I answered, and my world was rocked once more.’
“I was crocheting, like how we spent most nights. It was my mom, who never called me this time of evening as she worked night shift and would normally still be sleeping.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘We said our final goodbyes by attending a shared burial. Our baby, along with 30 or so others, were buried all together in a beautiful little white casket.’
“At the end of the service, each family had a chance to spend a few moments with all the babies in the casket. My husband, the girls and I all walked hand-in-hand slowly up front.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘We ended up accidentally getting pregnant after knowing each other for only a month. A few weeks later, that dream dissolved before our eyes.’
“All of a sudden, I heard a noise I couldn’t recognize. I came to and realized the noise was coming from me. A deep, loud, moaning scream.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘After an emotionally wrenching, years-long battle with infertility, I made a deal. I promised God if He would let me get pregnant, I would read every word of the Bible, cover to cover, in 1 year.’
“I was pregnant 3 weeks later. And I thought that was where this miracle story would end.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Honey, there is something wrong with his leg.’ I was exhausted, delirious, and just wanted to hold my baby, but I will never forget my response. ‘I’m sure it’s just a bruise.’
“In my mind he was the most beautiful thing I had ever laid my eyes on. My rainbow baby. But, would he be OK? He baffled them all.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘She deserves to know she has a guardian angel watching over her. Our family was concerned I got pregnant too quickly after such a tragic passing, but she was everything we needed.’
“I couldn’t stop screaming and yelling his name, begging him to wake up. I felt guilt knowing I didn’t breastfeed him. I have panic attacks, a lot, over what should be minor things.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Throughout my entire pregnancy, I had a ticking time bomb inside of me, and no one knew.’
“We were young and felt invincible to the world. Little did we know the storm we would cross in our path. Then my water broke…”
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?
“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 -
‘HOLY SH*T, we finally did it!’ Wife surprises husband with shocking baby announcement after 3 years of infertility
“She explained it would be extremely hard for me to become pregnant. I broke down in that cold exam room. The only thing in my head was, ‘I can’t have kids. I can’t be a woman for this amazing man who is counting on me.’”
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