“‘I’m sorry, we have to do this when a child dies in the home. It’s so hard for you,’ the investigator said. They found no cause of death. It is so rare, and the last thing I want to do is cause fear in someone else, but it’s a very real and possible thing that can happen.”
‘I peeked in her bedroom, I couldn’t tell if she was breathing. As I walked closer, I looked at her white feet and knew something was wrong. I went crazy. My brain snapped.’
‘I sleep in my contacts all the time and I’ve never had a problem.’ I hear this daily, as an eye doctor. This bacteria can quickly lead to permanent blindness.’
“It takes seconds to remove your contacts but a potential lifetime of irreversible damage if you choose to leave them in.”
‘When my kids were babies I fantasized about sleep. In my most desperate times I’d volunteer to be the road the matchbox cars would drive on to shut my eyeballs. I was so tired.’
“Now I’m up until all hours with bigs doing homework, or driving around in my van/taxi all hours. I’m still up at night. You guys there are a million reasons moms aren’t sleeping.”
‘CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BREATHE THROUGH THEIR MOUTHS. Not while awake, not while asleep. Never.’
“No one, in my 12 years of parenting, ever told me any of this. All the signs were there, right in front of our eyes, and I had no clue. Our son’s pediatrician, who we loved and trusted, never said a word. I had to find this, diagnose this, and push for treatment myself. And thank God I did.”
‘I’m a plus-sized mom and I wore the swimsuit. No, I didn’t just wear that bad boy, I rocked that spandex leotard-like one piece like it was my J-O-B!’
“I was praying the length of the walk to the beach chairs something like, ‘Lord, help me to have peace about this body so I can confidently enjoy my time with my family and these precious kids you gave me.'”
‘If you are pregnant or plan to be pregnant, there is a chance that your baby could be stillborn. I wish someone had told me.’
“Knowing might be the difference between bringing home your baby and bringing home a box of memories.”
‘Holding you in my arms with your feet dangling by my knees, I was painfully aware it was the last time I’d be physically able. The last time I carried you, my first baby.’
“Last night before bed, after our prayers and book, I asked if you knew what the best day of my life was.”
‘Reasons your child is waking up at 3 a.m.’
“1. They’re not sure if they’ve heard Yanny or Laurel. This is a big one.”
‘SLEEPING BEAUTY’: 16-year-old sleeps ‘more than 20 hours a day’ in comas due to severe epilepsy
“Her brain misfires more than 80% of her life, even during sleep. She has been hospitalized hundreds of times, has stopped breathing, her heart has stopped and she has had to be resuscitated. She looks like Cinderella but lives like Sleeping Beauty.”
‘I should have let you sleep with me’
“I regret putting you back to bed, giving a hurried kiss, and shutting the door behind me.”
