“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 began to tell people. ‘No heartbeat’ is what I sent. I was numb. We went to a bar, and yes, I ordered a drink.’
“I did feel like I was doing something wrong by drinking with a fetus inside me. However, we needed it.”
By LJ Herman -
‘I heard this noise – a crackling noise coming from my lungs. The moment I realized my lungs sounded like Rice Krispies, my monitor started blaring. I was drowning in my own fluid. Literally.’
“My mother-in-law told my husband, ‘You get back there and get some answers or you are going to have a dead wife.’ She was right.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I had a miscarriage at age 18. Someone told me, ‘It must be because you’re not married.’’
“I started dating my husband at 13 years old. We got married at 19. I had my 1st miscarriage at 20 years old. I didn’t tell anyone. I went back to work the next day, taking orders at a drive-in, while someone was complaining about their kids.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I accidentally got pregnant with my best friend’s baby, and I wouldn’t change a thing.’
“I took out my phone and, with a violently shaking hand, I called Egg. ‘I did another, and it’s positive. There’s a cross. It’s faint, but it’s definitely there.'”
By LJ Herman -
‘I was pregnant. Talk about the craziest 9 months of my 16-year-old life. My life changed overnight. I found out I was pregnant in May, days after my sophomore year ended.’
“If you want to see friends come out of the woodwork, get pregnant at 16. Everyone judges every move you make as a 16-year-old mom.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘It was so simple for me to accidentally get pregnant with my twins. Why couldn’t I do this for my wife?! I felt as if I was failing her. Something I never wanted to do.’
“This was something we both wanted SO badly, yet everything was going horribly wrong. This wasn’t full of whispers and giggles and kisses like we had thought. This was full of frustration, anger, and disappointment.”
By Eliza Murphy -
I thought, ‘Oh, I must not be as far along as I thought.’ But as time went on, I said, ‘Is something wrong?’ The tech said, ‘Yes, we should hear a heartbeat.’
“I was so excited to see my baby I thought NOTHING of this statement.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I was still in the stirrups, getting stitched up, talking to my OB. ‘I never have to do this again.’ I rejoiced. Until one day.’
“She had no idea how much I had been counting down to this milestone. The last birth of our last baby. I had a ‘geriatric uterus’ this pregnancy, being 35. I’m tired and these kids are expensive!”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘My husband and I arrived at the hospital to await our baby’s arrival. I had no idea the very bed I was settling in would soon become my death bed.’
“I became frantic. Something terrible was happening. I told my husband to find help immediately. He needed to prepare himself that he may leave the hospital with a baby, but not his wife.”
By Eliza Murphy -
