My husband and I aren’t exactly strangers when it comes to relationship challenges 💞. We have been together for 14 years and married for eight, so we’ve definitely gone through some growing pains as we navigated a long-distance relationship in college and our first year living together as a married 👫 couple.

But nothing has challenged our relationship quite like our first year as 👪 parents .

Before you have your first child, you have these grand ideas of what it will be like. There’s more slee...

!!!!LABOR STORY!!!!

Saturday at 1AM, lost my mucus plug/bloody show, and I was freaking out! A couple of hours later I had cramping, but felt like BH just a little stronger. They came and went, but felt stronger with each hour. Didn't sleep that whole night! I called the midwife at my hospital and told her I lost it and was having really bad cramping and she told me I was fine and was prob just having BH contractions.

The next day I was having what I thought were strong BH contractions every 10-...

Moms,

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Hi Moms and Moms-to-be,

@Simpsonv54 's son is 3-months old and is in the hospital for the fourth time. Her family is currently at the Children's Hospital of Atlanta and has an urgent request for help and advice. These are her words:

- Ok mommies, I need advice from anyone who may have had a similar situation as ours. Both us and my son's Dr's here at children's are at a loss as to what could be going on with him. Here is our story! At nine weeks old, on September 17th my son started running...

🍼💙->BIRTH STORY <-💙🍼

7/19/18 woke u with severe contractions.. went to the er & got sent home..7/20/18 Again had mayor contractions (they never went away) went back to l&d but my cervix was not making any changes.. got sent home!!!

& omg my body was so tired from contracting n not sleeping (it was horrible)..same thing barely no sleep!

In pain all day n night 🙅🏼‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🙎🏼‍♀️💆‍♀️

7/21/18 had enough went back to l&d same story no changes drink water 💦

(Blah blah blah) lol got sent home (again in tears). Around...