Tag: Parenting

"Then I turned back, looked at my wife and little girl and it hit me like a ton of bricks..."

"She's reminded every moment of every day that she's carrying a baby that will die."

"I was celebrating milestones that seemed so simple to everyone else, such as the suck of his first dummy and finally being able to breathe on his own, but they were absolutely huge in the NICU world."

"Never again would I have that exact, precious morsel of time back."

I had somehow snapped in the midst of movement, and I had hit a wall in my flurry of daily routine.

When tempers calm and you climb meekly into my lap nuzzled closely to my heart and whisper, “I love you, Mommy,” what I’ve been seeing all along is that much clearer. Yes, you are my strong-willed child, but you are so much more.

"I will never stop loving these babies I’ve been blessed with. I’ll never stop holding them through the hurricane of memories that haunt them in the night. I’ll never stop keeping a second bed in my room."

"You will stumble and fall and, no doubt, be discouraged. But you will stand up, dust yourself off, and take another step, because you are strong."