“Why is my body not strong enough? What is wrong with me? What am I doing wrong? Why is this happening to me? What if I can’t have anymore kids, will my husband leave me?”
‘I’m not pregnant. Yes, that’s an ultrasound, with my name, a recent date, but I am not pregnant…well, not anymore.’
‘I can tell you right now you probably aren’t going home tonight.’ Mom’s pregnancy battle amidst preeclampsia and PTSD
“Nothing could prepare me though for the roller coaster we were about to endure.”
‘I was handed a drink. I woke up in an empty room, except for an air mattress. I was completely naked. All my belongings were missing.’ Woman ‘hurt no one was looking for me’ after 3-day-long sexual assault
“There was a window in the bedroom. I tried to open it, but it had been nailed shut. Then, the guy I knew from the party opened the door. ‘As long as you’re compliant, you’ll make it home,’ he said. No one took any notice that I had been gone for 3 days. Not my family, not my friends, not my instructors at school. No one. I felt completely alone. Nobody ever asked me if I was ok.”
‘I stopped this vehicle today for a left lane violation on I-65.’
“The driver had approximately 20 cars slowed behind her because she would not move back to the right lane.”
‘At 35 miles per hour, and with one unintended push, my baby was born.’
“Mike, we better get out of here! I think I am going to have the baby on the toilet!”
These Pills Don’t Mean I’m Broken
“It means I’m strong enough to ask for help.”
‘9 months after our journey began, our baby was made.’ Same sex couple’s IVF struggle to become parents
“We hope our story will inspire others to be open minded about same-sex parenting, the struggles we have been through to become parents, and the strength we have had to have to mentally endure the journey.”
Breastfeeding Is Much Harder Than I Ever Could’ve Imagined
“The nurses told me EVERYONE can breastfeed. I expected to be that same blissful mother, but I wasn’t.”
‘As my mom battles her dementia I realize the importance of a memory’: Daughter savors the ‘crazy, laughter, tears’ because ‘it’s all that matters’
“As she loses more and more of these moments she has tucked away, we realize the depth of her loss. The pain it brings us and must bring her as she slowly disappears.”
‘As an unmarried girl,’ woman shares emotional father-daughter dance with her cancer-ridden dad before it’s too late
“He held me in his arms and told me how beautiful I was, and I got to see the pride and the joy in his eyes to be dancing with me, all dressed in white.”