“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.”
‘I screamed out, ‘I can’t lose my baby!’, with tears streaming down my face. But deep down I knew.’
‘Had I known a mere 13 weeks was all I had with this child, I would have said ‘good night and good morning’ more often.’
“I am sorry but I can’t find a heartbeat’ said the sonographer empathically.”
‘My husband and I were never going to have children of our own. The realization was crushing. I entered the OR, and my journey ended.’
“We are still waiting for the phone call that will change our lives. We set up a nursery, hoping we would get lucky. We bought a car seat and stroller, so we were prepared at a moments notice. For now, we wait.”
The Heartbreaking Reality Of Saying Goodbye To My Foster Child
“How do I tell my three boys, whom have formed an incredible bond with her, that their baby sister is leaving?”
‘Our daughter no longer had a heartbeat. I threw up and cried all at once.’: Best friend steps in as surrogate to give heartbroken couple ‘last chance for a baby’
“I will make sure there isn’t a day that goes by our Faith doesn’t know how special she is; how her life gave my life meaning again, and about the very special person who helped give her life.”
They Say You Only Have 18 Summers With Your Kids, And I’m On Number 18
“My head knows this is a good thing, but my heart? It just hurts.”
‘My liver was shutting down. I could no longer carry my pregnancy without serious risk to us both. Everything came crashing down. I had done everything right!’
“Before I could process I had given birth to you, you were placed on my chest and I started crying. The crying that your soul has been fulfilled.”
‘I was part of the ‘human rights violations’ taking place on the border.’ Confessions from a paramedic on the border
“Through the course of my career I have spent, off and on, 15 years working as a medic on the border.”
Having A New Baby Is Like Starting A New Job
“You start off with the three month probation period, the most difficult three months in your career. Your boss is basically a jerk. He told you the hours were flexible and ‘family friendly,’ but what he meant was you’d be working overnight without double time or a toilet break.”
‘We were only together a few months when I changed jobs. I quit because they weren’t treating me fairly. I was young and stupid.’
“‘Men don’t just quit their jobs, Brad… they find something else first and they stick it out. That’s just what adults do.’ She was worried because I wasn’t.”