“I was out shopping and went to the bathroom. My mom looked over at me, tears in my eyes, and asked what was wrong. I was bleeding! I prayed, thought good baby thoughts. After all, I had no fertility issues, right? Yet this went on for months. With each month, I lost hope. All I thought and dreamt about was having a baby. I cried thinking that might never be me.”
‘Being a single mom by choice? Not the most common. I spent years hoping I’d find a husband, have kids. At 33, and several failed relationships later, I gave up. It was time to do it on my own.’ Single woman told she has ‘no fertility issues,’ faces battle in pursuit of pregnancy
Mom with terminal breast cancer afraid to miss the ‘little moments’ with daughter: ‘Light-up shoes, ice skates, bra straps’
“It has been 10 months since a dear doctor friend told me I had stage 4 breast cancer. I sat outside on the phone, begging her to tell me my daughter would remember me.”
‘He fought on’: AMAZING father fiercely loved his daughter through dementia, Parkinson’s and brain injury
“Every single person I met told me about how much my father loved me, and how everything he does is for me.”
‘We could tell something was wrong’: Mother, daughter rock spina bifida and C-section ‘battle scars’
“There’s nothing like that sinking feeling in your gut when you know you’re about to hear something you desperately hoped you would never have to hear.”
‘She messaged me not to worry. She would be home in the morning. I told my husband something was wrong. I finally laid down, only to be woken by my doorbell minutes later.’ Mom tragically loses ‘beautiful’ daughter to heroin overdose
“It was 3:44 a.m. I remember walking to the door and seeing a woman standing through the window. I thought it was Ashlyn. As I got closer, I realized it was a woman and a man, both in suits with badges. They were there to tell me my baby had died.”
