“He pats my shoulder kindly and before walking away he says, ‘Everything is going to be okay. God always has a plan.’”
‘The man at the grocery store said, ‘So he is your last then, the baby of the family?’ The tears I’d been containing started pouring again.’: Mom with PCOS suffers miscarriage, ‘Please know we loved you already’
‘This picture of me is blurry, and so is how I have been feeling. I am crapped out.’
“The truth is that, in the summertime, while I enjoy these extra moments with my children, I am also a mess because of it.”
‘I grew up in a time where you could drink from the hose. And I survived.’
“Nobody told my mom she was ruining our lives because we played until the street lights were on. But now as moms, we don’t survive.”
‘He was so wiggly coming out he made it hard to catch him! We were so overwhelmed, he was so beautiful.’: Parents welcome ‘perfect rainbow baby boy’ after pregnancy loss
“We had a surprise pregnancy. Unfortunately, that ended in a loss of our little one which hit us pretty hard. We choose to leave everything up to fate and not prevent another future pregnancy. Sure enough, 5 months later we were expecting another little one! And again, it ended in a loss. So, we chose to hold off on the idea. Turns out fate had other things in mind.”
‘I throw one of these in the skimmer basket and… holla bing holla boom! The cloudiness left and my sponge looks like this.’
“Everyone knows my pool is green by this time of the year. My daughter spotted this idea and I figured why not try it.”
‘I was living a double life. I’d go to college. Then I’d hang out at trap houses, cut dope and use drugs intravenously.’: Addict says he was ‘miraculously healed’ and had ‘no withdrawals symptoms’
“The first time I ever injected methamphetamine I knew I was going to have a problem – because it was the best feeling I had ever felt. I dropped out of college and went on a binge. I was now forging checks, stealing from my family, selling drugs, and breaking into houses to support my habit. I never thought I would be able to get clean and sober.”
‘Who do you belong to?,’ asked the wedding photographer, to our 19-year-old foster son.
“’He’s ours,’ I said. His eyes met mine for just a second. He smiled.”
‘I got out of bed, got dressed, and left my apartment with no intentions of ever returning. I then pulled out my phone to request an Uber to a bridge in my area.’
“I began walking onto the bridge, passing a sign that held the suicide prevention lifeline number on it. ‘They can’t help me,’ I thought.”
‘As the contractions grew closer together, with each ring I was nervous his Wi-Fi had gone out.’
“My first pregnancy ended in an induction that lasted 3 days. I was terrified that was going to happen again. I knew John would not be able to sit at his computer for 3 days, and the longer labor was, the less likely he would be able to stay by the computer.”
‘EWWW WHAT IS THAT? I saw it hanging out of my daughter’s chewing mouth, while she smiled smugly. I pulled it out and realized it was a HAIRY LEG OF AN INSECT.’: Mom’s hilarious run-in with insect has her freaking out
“‘Should I take her to the doctor?’ I start crying hysterically because I failed her, and now she’s going to be like that little boy on ‘Stranger Things’ and the bugs are gonna host her body and she’s going to doom us all to the Upside Down!”