“Today I yelled too much. They watched television too much. When I lay them down to bed at night, I look at those beautiful souls I created and think, ‘How could I ever be so mad at them?'”
I Sucked At Being A Mom Today
‘I see twins!’ The doctor’s face paled. ‘I think there are five.’: Mom battling infertility births quintuplets with high school sweetheart
“‘Something seems off.’ I was absolutely terrified. I didn’t understand why God would do this to me. It was so dangerous! At 8 weeks, we went in and sure enough, we saw five babies! I was actually pregnant with QUINTUPLETS!”
‘The comment read, ‘Their family dynamic doesn’t make sense. They should AT LEAST make families look REAL.’: Mixed-race family responds to hate after commercial
“We did a commercial for Sonic-Drive In. It was a fun experience, something completely out of the norm and we enjoyed the opportunity to do something so different together. It’s been fun watching people message us videos of them watching it or ask us if we’re ‘that Sonic family.’ Recently, however, I received a message …
‘You have NO business being a mother.’ He wanted love and I wanted to be left ALONE.’: Mom survives postpartum depression, ‘It’s okay to ask for help’
“I GENUINELY believed my son was better off with anyone besides me.”
‘You look in the mirror and think, ‘My gosh. What happened to me?’ Your 3-day-old yoga pants covered in smeared banana.’: Woman urges ‘you don’t see it, but you are the perfect mom’
“You don’t see it in the floor covered with toys or the countertop smattered with dirty dishes. You don’t feel it in your 3-day-old yoga pants, desperately brushing out the crease in your hair from your days-old ponytail, wondering where all of your clean bras are. But it’s there, one perfect Mom for her sweet baby.”
‘Each time we opened the freezer, we were at risk of being buried under an AVALANCHE of milk.’: Mom donates 200 ounces of breastmilk to local NICU
“I’d rather my breastmilk be put to good use.”
‘I’ve NEVER regretted following my mama gut. I fight for him when others give up.’: Mom to Autistic son says ‘it’s a privilege to be a voice for him’
“If I didn’t advocate for him, we wouldn’t be where we are today.”
‘Don’t stare at my little girl.’: Mom of ‘differently abled’ daughter pleas others to ‘diversify your feed’
“I stepped in front of her to ‘shield’ her from their questioning, gaping eyes.”
‘I called my mom, sobbing, ‘We have the visas and we’re going to get our baby!’: Mom shares international adoption journey
“She’d been abandoned in the NICU. She was so tiny, 8 pounds at 18 months old, and had the most beautiful eyes. We knew she was placed with us for a divine reason.”
‘I don’t like playing with my kids, and that’s okay.’: Mom urges ‘you are exactly what your child needs’
“The pressure to be the ‘perfect’ mom is exhausting. I’ve learned to acknowledge WHAT I do well and leave the rest alone.”
