“I couldn’t bring myself to open my eyes. I knew I was in trouble. I asked for my husband and heard his voice weakly manage to say, ‘I love you.’ He knew I was in trouble, too.”
‘For one brief moment, all was as it should be. Suddenly, without any warning, the path crumbled beneath our feet. I was severely hemorrhaging. I was bleeding out.’
To The Little Girls Who Were Abused And Grew Up To Be Women
“You are never, NEVER defined by what a horrible person did to you.”
‘Did I really experience that or was it a dream? The pastor asks, ‘Have you had any problems with your pregnancy?’ I reply ‘NO.’’
“Immediately I call my husband. I asked him to meet me at the hospital (still no tears and I don’t understand). The lady informs me my baby boy died 3 days ago.”
‘I had my first alcoholic drink at the age of 10. I deployed to Afghanistan in 2015. I drank to calm my nerves. The drinking kept escalating.’
“I returned to the States. I started drinking even more. My marriage was falling apart. When I woke up from the coma, I was still hallucinating. The VA had no inpatient treatment facility spot open for me.”
‘My mom’s back was sore from lifting my kids in and out of the shopping cart. That’s when I shared THE TRICK with her. Behold, the best mom hack you’ll ever find.’
“You’re welcome! Do your part to make a mama’s life easier.”
‘I asked my 95-year-old grandfather to dance with me. I have never seen him smile so big in my life. I wanted to live in this moment forever.’
“When my grandfather saw my tears, he asked me why I was crying.”
‘The purple blanket isn’t yours. Even though it covered your car seat when you left the hospital. Even though you sleep with it every night. It’s not yours.’: Mom pens note to baby about sister’s passing
“The preeclampsia had its way. She came early, and she came silently. The purple blanket never touched her fragile skin.”
‘Even before life began I didn’t have the best chance of survival. I was conceived by two reckless, ill prepared, teenagers being instructed to ‘consider all their options.’
“When I was 15, I would succumb to numerous stresses, triggers, and bullying. I survived my mental health incident of swallowing over 150 pills.”
‘This is a serious post! What’s the deal with not having changing tables in men’s bathroom as if we don’t exist?! Father’s lives matter.’
“Is the lack of fatherhood that bad in our society where restaurants don’t even bother to put changing tables in men’s restrooms?”
‘I was punched in the face by a man who claimed to ‘love me so much.’ Then he said, ‘Now I’m going to call my mom to let her finish the job.’: Woman’s son survives shaken baby syndrome, ‘He is a survivor for a reason’
“He said, ‘Something is wrong with Wyatt.’ I open the shower curtain and see him holding my son out. I thought his neck was broken.”