“The pediatrician was super blunt. ‘No, you are mistaken. You’ve confused us with a different baby.’ Nobody noticed it on the million ultrasounds throughout the pregnancy. I watched my husband and 1-day-old baby taken away from me in an ambulance and all I could do was stare.”
‘You’re purposely starving your unborn child by not eating.’ My husband wasn’t allowed in the room for ultrasounds.’: Mom births baby with Down syndrome after hospital malpractice, ‘He is more loved because, not despite, his diagnosis’
‘Little boys don’t need to ‘toughen up’ or stop crying. It’s OK if they’re not OK.’: Boy mom urges ‘vulnerability is a gift’
“They need to be comforted, nurtured, and told their feelings are valid.”
‘I will never stop kissing your boo-boos. I will never stop wiping your tears and admiring you as you sleep. You will forever be my little boy.’: Mom urges ‘soak up these moments, you are their world right now’
“Even when you stop asking for kisses and cuddles. Even when you don’t want to hold my hand anymore. Even when you don’t want me to sing you to sleep anymore. You will always be my little boy. This bond between mother and son, it’s something special.”
‘The phone rang. ‘Hello, Police Service. We’re on the side of the Broadway Bridge. I’m sorry. We answered because it said ‘Mom.’: Mom loses 15-year-old to suicide; ‘I choose to honor Ethan’
“He told me, ‘I started seeing the counselor when dad was being really mean to me about football.’ The more time Ethan spent with his father, the more my role became to be there to pick up the pieces. He confessed, ‘I thought about killing myself.’”
‘I texted her, ‘My baby has died inside me. Would you still be willing to come?’: Mom to child born still thanks birth photographer, ‘These pictures are our most precious possessions’
“We found out at 38 weeks and 4 days that our baby had died inside of me. I knew immediately, more than ever, I wanted those photos.”
‘Last week, Arthur stopped by with a gift. Each time he delivers a package, Hudson lights up, runs to our front windows, and can’t wait to say, ‘Hi!’: Woman shares delivery man’s act of kindness
“In a time where so many (especially young children) are having an incredibly hard time with this ‘new way’ of life and so many restrictions, this friendship with Arthur has meant THE WORLD to Hudson…and to us.”
‘Thank you for your service.’ At that moment, they weren’t a black man and a white kid.’: Mom shares son’s act of kindness, ‘Take two and a half minutes to show somebody respect’
“They were two men made of the same cloth.”
‘You asked me this morning, on your birthday, ‘Why did those people blow up New York?’ I was unprepared for this moment.’: Mom shares open letter to 9/11 baby
“On the morning of September 11th, I went into labor. You were born just before midnight, 12 years after that ominous day changed our worlds forever. How do you explain hate to a beautiful, loving, kind, newly-minted 6-year-old?”
‘The hospital staff told us multiple times, ‘There are more emergent cases and not enough space.’ I woke to the sound of chaos.’: Mom loses son to congenital heart defect, ‘He was as perfect as could be’
“Just as I handed him off to the nurse, he began to cry, and right before we watched them walk him back to the operating room, we locked eyes. I had no idea it would be the last time I would ever see those beautiful blue eyes again.”
‘Why are you doing this?’ There were 50 shirts. With each one, he told me about the kid who made it by name. Little stories, smiling with belly laughs.’: Dad learns lesson on kindness from late son
“2 months later, Connor passed away suddenly. I think about this memory often. My son taught me what being a man is.”
