“There is no way you can prepare yourself to bury your child. We both were trying to keep it together, but it was obvious we were falling apart.”
‘Baby Coehn was taken to Heaven too soon by Trisomy 18. His momma labored for 33 hours before getting to hold her son.’
A Letter To My Son One Year After His Heartbeat Stopped
“No matter how many bad days I have without you in my arms, it is another day closer to being together again.”
‘I had all her kids. She messed up and it was done’: Foster mom and bio mom on raising their ‘little traumatized souls’
“Our relationship started off tense, territorial, and hard. She accused me of everything and I thought nothing of her. But I realized, she is not my enemy. Her addiction is.”
‘I see Dad wiping his eyes. I realize he is crying.’ Elderly man devastated his wife with dementia thought ‘everyone left her’
“I was in the bathroom. She didn’t know where I was. She went outside into the yard looking for me.”
‘I tried to convince her to leave, but she wouldn’t. My mom won $24,000 and gave us the money to do IVF.’: Woman’s BINGO WIN finally gives her TWINS, ‘This changed our lives forever’
“I had an addiction to peeing on sticks. It’s a real thing. My husband made me pee on the test that says ‘pregnant’ or ‘not pregnant.’ HE didn’t believe the lines. Sure enough, our bingo babies were conceived! What came next was unexpected and scary. I had a postpartum hemorrhage after each baby was born and they could not get it under control. ‘Am I dying?,’ I remember asking my mom. I kept thinking, ‘How did I go through all this and not be able to see my babies grow up?’”
The 7 Burdens Of Being A Young Person Living With Chronic Illness
Young people carry several extra burdens, especially when their disability is invisible.
‘Life with four children with albinism has been quite the adventure.’: Family adopts 4 albino children whose ‘unique, rare’ condition makes ‘our hearts full’
“We stick out in a crowd and draw attention anywhere we go. There are occasions when the pointing, stares, and whispered comments are invasive and annoying. People reach out and touch our children’s hair without asking. We’ve even had to step in and stop strangers from taking selfies with our kids!”
‘Get out of my way woman, my wife is having a baby!’
“I’ve always thought of myself as pretty cool under pressure. But the first time I got that call that my wife’s water had broken, something changed.”
‘Drug addict by day, mom/wife by night’: Woman’s journey from hiding pills in her bra to becoming ‘The Healing Junkie’
“I started experimenting with drugs at the age of 13 — smoking pot and drinking, until someone gave me a Percocet. I still remember the warmness that came over my body as the surge of dopamine flooded my brain… I was in love.”
This Is What Depression Looks Like
“No. Not the clean dishes.”