Through sharing her decision, countless other couples have stepped up to do the same thing: give their eggs and embryos to these grieving women. The desire to build a family is a deep and overwhelming feeling that bonds us together. This is the mark of true compassion and empathy: knowing what it feels like to be in someone else’s place, and doing something about it. Read More
Pregnant Mother of Toddler Breaks Down at Airport and Half a Dozen Women Come to Her Rescue
” … we knelt down and formed a circle around them,” Dunnington says. “I sang ‘The Itsy Bitsy Spider’ to the little boy … one woman had an orange that she peeled, one woman had a little toy in her bag that she let the toddler play with, another woman gave the mom a bottle of water. Someone else helped the mom get the kid’s sippy cup out of her bag and give it to him.” Read More
Pink Posts Picture of Her Daughter Climbing On Her While Rehearsing For Her Upcoming Tour
It seems like even a pop princess like Pink deals with clinginess. And when a small child needs to be held, they need to be held. It doesn’t matter if you’re cooking dinner or working on your choreography for a world tour, children’s snuggles wait for no one. Read More
Woman Seeks Help From Her Doctor for PPD, Has Police Called on Her Instead
What makes this whole situation even more frustrating? Jessica was unable, at any point, to have face time with a physician. “Not once during all of this has a doctor laid eyes on me,” she writes. “Not once. Not even before they decided to call the cops on me.” Read More
25-Year-Old Woman Gives Birth to 24-Year-Old Baby Through Embryo Adoption
This November, Tina Gibson, a 25-year-old woman in eastern Tennessee, gave birth to a baby girl who is almost as old as she is. The Gibsons, who faced fertility challenges in their own journey to become parents, came to be their daughter Emma’s parents through something called Embryo Adoption. Read More
Husbands Everywhere Are Hashtagging #Pregnantwife and We Can’t Get Enough!
Whether you remember laughter turning into sobbing, strange midnight requests for food, or just plain feeling entitled to 75% of the bed, we understand. We’ve been there. Read More
Educator Uses a Balloon and Ping Pong Ball to Seamlessly Demonstrate Childbirth
Liz Chalmers, co-owner of Puget Sound Midwives and Birth Center in Seattle, has an excellent teaching tool that is taking the internet by storm, and it involves only a single balloon and a ping pong ball. Read More
Hospital’s ‘ICU Grandpa’ Cuddles Newborns When Their Parents Can’t Be With Them
An angel in an 82-year-old man’s body, David Deutchman volunteers his free time at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s ICUs, coming in to snuggle babies whose parents are away from them. Read More
Grieving Mother Creates the Empty Photo Project to Show the Reality of Child Loss
The thing about living through grief is that, often, the most cathartic action you can take is to help others through their own suffering. And that’s exactly what Susanna did with the Empty Photo Project. Read More
Weekly Roundup: Pregnancy Pillow, Safety Items and Educational Children’s Books and Toys! 8/27 – 9/2
This week’s Weekly Roundup of Mom’s Choice Award winners features a pregnancy pillow, safety items and of course educational children’s books and toys! Read More