“Postpartum depression is a hard thing for women to talk about. I thought to myself, ‘Shame on you for feeling sad. You have this beautiful, healthy baby boy – you have nothing to be sad about.’”
‘You seem like you’re having a really hard time with this.’ Tears poured down my face as I said, ‘I am. I’m so sad and I don’t know WHY.’
My Daughter Was Not A ‘Junkie,’ She Was A Human Being With A Disease
“We as a society need to do a better job.”
‘I became pregnant. I was terrified. A dark shadow came across his eyes. He knew I was even more trapped in his spell.’ Teen mom’s incredible story of survival with her baby born from ‘the devil himself’
“Don’t ever let someone think they have control over you. Don’t ever be a young, terrified version of me. You are strong. You are fearless. I believe in you. Believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Run and find it.”
Today, A Stranger At The Splash Pad Taught Me To Relinquish My Fears
“She was in there, in-it-to-win-it style. She was soaking wet, going down the water slide, laughing with her kids on her lap. She was having so much fun. She didn’t care that her jean shorts were going to be miserable on the ride home. She didn’t care that black mascara was streaming down her face. She didn’t care that her white shirt was stuck to her like shellac on fingernails.”
‘Just like most moms, the modern world is kicking her ass.’
“The modern world tells her she needs to contribute financially; but judges her for leaving her babies in the hands of others to do so.”
My Baby Never Came Home With Me
“One week after we lost our daughter, we walked in the door to our apartment.”
5 Reasons Single Moms Are Incredibly Attractive
“There’s no ‘Honey Do’ list for single moms. There’s a ‘I have to do this list’ they make for themselves. That amount of grit and determination is so unbelievably beautiful to me.”
The special moment when a stranger mentioned my children in heaven
“You don’t know me, but I took care of you when you gave birth. I remember Parker and Abby, and of course Peyton.”
‘You’re so small.’ ‘Aren’t pregnant women supposed to gain weight?’: Mom gives birth to 2-pound preemie after umbilical cord complications
“My doctor kept looking at my pregnant belly with a look of concern. ‘How much did you weigh before this pregnancy?’ she asked. The umbilical cord was giving our son nutrients, but not enough. His body was being starved. Every day was a gamble that the umbilical cord would stop working.”
‘I screamed out, ‘I can’t lose my baby!’, with tears streaming down my face. But deep down I knew.’
“After 296 days in the hospital we got to bring our son we nicknamed ‘Tough Hough’ and ‘Texas Tornado’, home for the first time in his life. He’s flourishing and hasn’t looked back once.”