“It will be weird. It will be scary. Your boobs will be sore. Your hands and feet will swell to the size of a pufferfish.”
Dear Pregnant Momma: Once You Hold Your Baby, Everything Else Fades Away
‘I want to see if the vultures think I’m a dead animal’: Shocking things mom learned after she ‘stopped hurrying’ her son’s childhood
“How many times in a day do you tell your child to ‘hurry up?’ Did you ever just STOP and try to get inside their head?”
‘We were 27, married for four years, and told we would never be able to get pregnant on our own.’
“As we were preparing to leave he told us to hold on a minute. Silence. Excuse me? Did I just hear you correctly? Say that again please…”
‘My kid is a jerk. No, I’m serious.’
“It was like as soon as she realized the tooth fairy wasn’t real, she got a dose of the hormone fairy which WAS real, and let me tell you – the hormone fairy is a jerk, too.”
‘I lost my patience with your mom. I didn’t mean to. I love your mother’: Elderly husband’s anguish of feeling ‘broken’ dealing with wife’s dementia
“Dad looks up and says, ‘I lost my patience with your mom.’ I tell him he is carrying a load none of us can imagine and frustration is going to happen sometimes.”
‘Our baby girl would not survive.’: Why the day this mom gave birth to triplets was ‘the biggest regret of my life’
“I felt like a monster. What kind of mother wouldn’t want to hold her own child?”
To The Mom Who Put Her Baby On The Floor At The Airport
“I was privy to a photo taken of you without your permission.”
‘Our eyes met. They were her begging eyes. Eyes that said, ‘Help me Mama.’: Woman devastated after losing her beloved dog, ‘My heart just wasn’t ready’
“Today was a day I’ve been dreading. We’ve known the end was coming, but didn’t want it to come so fast. Just an hour after this picture, Chloe was gone. For the first time, she wasn’t here. When the kids came home from school, Wyatt asked where she was. All I could do was shake my head trying to keep my composure. It hadn’t clicked with them yet. My daughter asked if she could give Chloe another treat. We had to explain she couldn’t have treats anymore, she wasn’t here.”
Anxiety Attacks Don’t Always Look Like Hyperventilation
“It took multiple trips to the doctors, hospitals and many, MANY appointments to discover what I was suffering from was actually anxiety.”
‘When I wear my Navy t-shirt, folks stop and say, ‘Thank your husband for his service.’ I AM the veteran.’: Female Navy veteran urges ‘we are equal’
‘I am the veteran, not the veteran’s wife. It’s time to go the next step and remove our unconscious bias.”