“My situation was a living nightmare. We wanted to give her the basic things every baby should have, like a soft toy. We simply couldn’t afford it.”
‘I faced the choice of buying food or affording diapers. It’s a lonely place to be.’: New mom thanks local baby bank for donating supplies
‘Are you having more kids?’ I didn’t want more of my own, but I had a desire to be pregnant again.’: Mom embarks on surrogacy journey
“We had our boy, we had our girl. We felt complete, but the desire to be pregnant again still lingered.”
‘A psychic took my hand and said, ‘You WILL have a daughter.’ I became obsessed.’: Mom welcomes rainbow baby
“I ate, slept, and breathed getting pregnant. I tried every old wives’ tale and even drank a tonic from our local mystic store owner. I became consumed.”
‘We sat in a dark room listening to our baby cry as they pried his eyelids open with clamps.’: Newborn diagnosed with ultra-rare Norrie Disease
“This wasn’t right. I was supposed to be blissfully loading my baby into the car, excited to get him home. Instead, my 5-pound baby, was to have eye surgery at 1 week old.”
‘Can you believe you can love something so much?’ I genuinely said no. I had love for her, but I wasn’t drowning in it.’: New mom says ‘my love took time and that’s okay’
“They pulled her out, and I was unfazed. ‘Do you want to hold her?’ I said no, shocked at my own response. I was so overwhelmed I just couldn’t bear the thought.”
‘Their birth story was both beautiful and a parent’s worst nightmare.’: Woman loses baby to Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome, surviving son diagnosed with autism
“I felt something in my new mama heart I couldn’t explain. It didn’t take long for me to start seeing the writing on the wall. But Jack was still our beautiful, kind, intelligent little boy he’d always been.”
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“I am not the person I used to be.”
‘I saw a man staring behind the counter with the most disgusted face. He spit out, ‘You know, we have bathrooms where you could do THAT.’: Mom responds to backlash for breastfeeding child
“I wasn’t having it. I decided it was the last time someone was going to feel they had the right to an opinion on my breasts – what they looked like or what I was doing with them. I unleashed on him.”
‘I licked her skin to see if it was salty. I cried, thinking my tiny baby was going to die before 20.’: First-time mom to daughter with cystic fibrosis says ‘she’s THRIVING’
“The bad seemed to outweigh the good. Hospital stays, lung transplants, endless medications, isolation. The first thing her team said was, ‘Don’t believe anything you read online.'”
‘The doctor walked in and said, ‘It’s time to take him.’ A rush of fear came over me. We were supposed to have another week.’: Heart warrior ‘defies the odds one day at a time’
“Thoughts of a nice smooth pregnancy went out the window. My biggest fears were coming to life.”
