“I felt paralyzed. ‘What does that even MEAN?!’ She’s right there in front of me!! She’s inside of me! How DARE you tell me that! She’s RIGHT THERE! I SEE her!!'”
‘I’m so sorry, it looks like her heart stopped beating close to a week ago’: Woman recounts pain of her miscarriage
‘I would have taken her place if I could.’: Husband’s heartbreaking account of their ‘devastating’ infertility battle
“I felt helpless.”
To The Girl Who Hated My Pregnancy Announcement
“To the girl whose heart is so bitter… I love you. I know it’s not fair.”
‘I thought I was ‘exempt’ from PCOS. We picked out baby names, even backup names! The weight gain, the moodiness? This was it! I was pregnant! Oh, how wrong I was.’ Woman with PCOS embarks on emotional infertility journey
“It’s funny how you spend most of your life doing everything in your power to NOT get pregnant. Then you get older, get married, and some have to do everything in your power TO get pregnant. We sat there, listening to every word my doc said, but all I heard was, ‘You can’t have a baby.’ We’d have to pay $17,000. I immediately felt all the blood drain from my body. $433 a MONTH for a child we didn’t even know if we were going to get.”
Having A Child With Down Syndrome Is A Blessing
“I was told that he was going to have Down syndrome. At the moment, I didn’t want to hear ‘I’m sorry,’ or that I could terminate my pregnancy. That was never a thought I would ever have.”
‘You know that mom you’re judging because her kid has no shoes on at Target? Yeah, that’s me.’
“Thank you so much for your concern, but I got it. His feet are bare, but he is fine.”
Dear Newborn Parents: You Did It, You Survived Uncharted Territories
“This was a photo my husband never told me he took. Now when I look at this picture, I see something beautiful.”
Dear Husband, I Need More Help
“My responsibility to feed the family, keep the house clean, and take care of the kids is assumed, even as I return to work.”
‘She was stunning. She was angelic. How could she look so perfect, and be so sick?’
“The exact second I stepped into my daughter’s hospital room was the very second the surgeon threw his hands in the air and said, ‘That’s it. There is nothing else we can do.’”
‘Can I ask you a question?’ She called because her son ‘came out’ to her, and she was unsure how to react.’: Gay woman claims ‘loving your person’ is the best way to respond to loved one ‘coming out of the closet’
“This nameless mother called me at the gay bar I work at for advice on how to respond to her son. ‘I don’t want to say anything that may mess him up.’ It really warmed my heart. I’ll never be able to stress just how lonely being an LGBT American can feel. We live in the closet out of fear of rejection. I told her exactly what any of my friends, or bar patrons, or any LGBT person would say: ‘Tell him he is loved and accepted.’”