“I’ve never felt so many emotions at once in my life, then I saw them pulling in the driveway. I could do nothing but cry. I was finally able to hold my baby.”
‘If you have to move 7,000 miles to get your miracle, IT IS WORTH IT!’
‘I cannot express what it feels like to carry around a dead baby for a month. I wanted to claw out of my body.’: After her month-long miscarriage, woman says she would ‘never wish this pain on anyone’
“Our doctor joked about the possibility of seeing triplets on the ultrasound. I was dizzy, so very dizzy. I laid down on the table and exposed my stomach. I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready for my heart to be broken again. He put the wand on my stomach, and I knew instantly. I couldn’t see a baby. My doctor was quiet. I told him there was nothing there. It wasn’t a question. I knew.”
‘He passed away on Friday. The work was done.’ Grandfather refuses to let himself die until the chores were done on his farm
“He didn’t know who we were at times. He didn’t know where he was. He couldn’t do anything independently. But he knew he had things to do. The lawnmower blade needed sharpening, the hay needed to be bailed. He had work to do.”
‘I had convinced myself I was just being paranoid. I was oblivious to the fact this could end up badly, so I went alone. It was supposed to be a chill day.’
“I noticed he was getting super clumsy. But he was a toddler, and most toddlers are naturally wobbly. Yet this felt different. He was holding on to the wall when he would walk, sometimes he would just fall right over. It was strange.”
‘Red, White, and Blue milk! This was all from one side, from one pumping session.’
“Don’t panic if you see blood in your milk! I know it is alarming.”
My Daughter Died After Eating Poorly Labeled Chips Ahoy Peanut Butter Cookies
“The company has different colored packaging to indicate chunky, chewy, or regular but NO screaming warnings about such a fatal ingredient to many people. Especially children.”
I Flew Off A Cliff Into The Pacific Ocean, And Survived 7 Days On A Deserted Beach
“I saw a woman walking across the shore. I thought she was a dream. I screamed, ‘HEEELLLPPPPP!’ I couldn’t believe they were real. I couldn’t believe we had finally found each other.”
‘I could not mentally prepare for what I was going to witness. He had been hospitalized due to Shaken Baby Syndrome. My heart immediately sank.’
“I asked if this was the same child I had seen in on the news, and she confirmed it. I knew in that moment I had to put my whole heart in it for this family.”
‘This is me as a patient in a psychiatric ward for mother’s with mental health issues with my baby because I was suicidal.’
“Postnatal depression isn’t always looking depressed. I never looked depressed…not once.”
As A Healthy 28-Year-Old, I Never Thought I Would Fall Victim To Cardiac Arrest
“Doctors informed my family they were unsure if I would regain normal functioning, as I had possibly lost too much oxygen to the brain.”