“I couldn’t stop screaming and yelling his name, begging him to wake up. I felt guilt knowing I didn’t breastfeed him. I have panic attacks, a lot, over what should be minor things.”
‘She deserves to know she has a guardian angel watching over her. Our family was concerned I got pregnant too quickly after such a tragic passing, but she was everything we needed.’
‘I woke up being wheeled to the ICU in the worst pain imaginable. All I could silently mouth was ‘How’s my baby?’ I needed a doctor to believe me.’
“I was frustrated and angry. I know my body and I know that this isn’t a migraine!”
‘I was late picking them up. Upon dialing her number I realized I was halfway through an intersection of a red light. I let an ‘OH SH*T’ fly.’
“Oh, I had left a message all right.”
‘I don’t really know what to say. Would you like tea?’ I’d just found out my boy wasn’t fine, he’d never be fine, and our life was forever changed.’: Mom’s son diagnosed with rare Vanishing White Matter terminal illness
“He wasn’t able to walk or stand. He was dragging one of his legs and crisscrossing them. Friends and family kept trying to reassure me everything would be okay, but I knew it wouldn’t. I could tell by how the doctors tiptoed around us, the way they were spending so much time with us. ‘It’s progressive, untreatable, incurable, and terminal.’ Despite all this, Sam is joy personified. He is the most incredible person I’ve ever met.”
‘MY TWO QUEENS! There are many times in life where you get to watch wonderful things happen. Her dream is to become a superstar – and tonight you helped make her dream come true!’
“Without Delaney doing this Skye probably would not have even been on the ballot.”
‘You were told you have cancer. If I timed my letter right – you’re home now, sitting with your daughter at bedtime.’
“You took that picture, holding your baby tight, wondering if these old photos would be the only evidence of you she’d have.”
‘Throughout my entire pregnancy, I had a ticking time bomb inside of me, and no one knew.’
“We were young and felt invincible to the world. Little did we know the storm we would cross in our path. Then my water broke…”
‘If you tell a person with anxiety to ‘just stop,’ you might as well just stop your mouth from spitting more unhelpful garbage.’
“If you make the mistake of asking someone with anxiety why they ‘do this to themselves,’ you really have no clue.”
‘I was watching her sleep next to me and realized it didn’t look right. I unbuttoned her and this is what I saw.’: Mom warns about the 1 cold symptom you shouldn’t ignore
“It is a sign to get your baby or child to hospital.”
‘My DAD was in the delivery room when I birthed my first child. ‘It’s okay Molz, you got this!’: Daughter grateful to experience ‘remarkable moment’ with father after losing him 3 years later
“I looked up from the bed horrified my dad was actually watching this whole thing. He could have snuck out. But he chose to stay. And I chose to let him. The power of those decisions would not be fully understood until years later. My dad died when the baby girl he witnessed come into this world was just 3 and a half years old.”