“‘I’m sorry, I’m not detecting a heartbeat.’ What followed is a blur. I recall Reece shouting NO repeatedly, but I stayed silent. The world seemed to stop, and I felt like I was watching myself on a TV screen.”
‘I remember walking out of the hospital thinking, ‘I don’t know if I can survive this.’: Bereaved mom shares heartbreaking loss of baby boy at 40 weeks
‘This was not my plan, but I put on a smile and prepared to meet my daughter.’: Mom shares intense labor and delivery story
“Just as they were putting the sheet up to block my view, I started hearing everyone scream PUSH, PUSH, PUSH! Push what? I’m pretty sure there isn’t any pushing involved with a C-section. Was I tripping from the drugs? I was on the freaking OR table!”
‘I couldn’t walk, use the restroom, or shower by myself. I couldn’t rock my baby to sleep when he was crying.’ Mom shares first child’s birth story, losing feeling in her leg
“All I could think about was how I was going to take care of a newborn when I couldn’t walk. I felt angry, terrified, and completely devastated. This wasn’t how it was supposed to be.”
‘She has her differences, but she is still our little girl.’: Mom shares daughter’s rare Nager Syndrome diagnosis journey
“How could this be happening when everything had been so normal for the last 34 weeks? Concerned. That word still haunts me. We were almost done with the pregnancy, and to just find out something was abnormal was tough to process.”
‘My labor was over, my baby was here, and I’d never felt so alone.’: Mom shares what she has done differently from first child birth
“All women deserve to have a positive birthing experience, no matter what methods they choose.”
Boy Who Survived The Impossible After NICU Catheter Punctured Vein Now Thriving 2-Year-Old
“To every single healthcare worker, thank you a million times. Because of you, we got to celebrate the life of our incredible little Elias today. You will never understand what you mean to our family.”
‘She was born into a disastrous emergency. Her mother was dying, and she was dying.’: Mom shares daughter’s journey to thriving with cerebral palsy
“She wants everyone to SEE people with disabilities. I want that too.”
Dad Sets World Records Running Marathons With Quintuplets To Honor Wife
“I wanted to put myself through a small fraction of discomfort to show my wife, ‘I acknowledge your suffering and I am eternally grateful for these children you carried.'”
‘The OB showed me a second baby—twins! At 33 weeks, I had a feeling something wasn’t right.’: Mom survives HELLP syndrome to deliver twins
“The nurse explained, ‘Your lab results came back, and they are scary.’ We were officially in ‘get-these-babies-out-ASAP’ territory.”
‘My little girl would be born without her left hand.’: Mom shares acceptance of daughter’s limb difference, building local support community
“As I sat there talking through all my fears and worries, my husband said, ‘I mean, in all reality, this is the least worst thing that could have happened to her.’ It did not go over as well as he meant it, but it was eventually something I’d think about many times.”