“I told him I would let him know when I was home from school, so he could come pick me up. Little did I know when I made that phone call, the details I heard on the other end would change our lives forever. Nothing would ever, ever be the same.”
‘Who is this,’ I asked. ‘This is Ty’s assistant principal. I just came upon a car accident on my way home. It’s Ty, and he is not good.’ Wait, what?
‘As twins, we always dreamed of being pregnant together. We delivered on the same day, in the same hospital, by the same doctor, only 3 hours apart.’
“The babies were positioned in the same way, their weights were ounces off, and length was the same. Our doctor and the ultrasound technician could not believe their eyes!”
‘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.’”
‘Every time I looked in the mirror I saw the girl with Endometriosis. The girl whose brother died. The girl who had given up. I was done being that girl. I wanted to feel beautiful again. ‘
“I grieved the loss of my baby I will never feel growing inside me. I was angry at God for taking my brother so soon. I was done being that girl. I wanted to feel beautiful again.”
‘I was an emotional blob who couldn’t peel myself off my couch’: After miscarriages, postpartum depression, mom loses 100 pounds ‘not for wife me, not mom me, but ME’
“During my depression, at its worst, I was sure I would be on an episode of ‘My 600-lb Life’ by the time I was 35. I am so glad I made a U-Turn in the right direction and I have made the changes to be a better me, wife, and mother.”
‘Our sweet little girl’s heart quit beating’: After devastating loss, family expected another, until a MIRACLE happened
“We heard the most amazing noise… Eleanor’s cry! We weren’t expecting this. Her prognosis is now to live life without limits! Our goal is to get her there.”
‘My sweet little miracle’: After adopting 6 kids, couple finally gets pregnant with their ’10 year adventure’
“‘Alright Christina, I will tell you what. Go home, take this trigger shot and just have fun. Let’s see what happens.'”
‘We have to go through IVF. The price on the paper was over $17,000. Where would we get that money?’
“We got in the car and just stared at one another. How would this be possible?”
‘You deny, bargain, get angry, cry, and accept’: Mom-to-be declares women with infertility are not ‘LESSER’
“I felt defeated and ashamed, like I was lesser because of my struggles. I realized I wasn’t. I was stronger than I ever thought.”
