I Never Wanted to Be a Hospital Mom
Life as a hospital mom is not a life for just anyone. You have no other choice, there is no…
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By Kamrie Smith My Baby Had RSV—And God Had Us
When my son was a mere two weeks old, he contracted RSV. My older kids had come down with it…
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Those Blue Paper Pants
Blue paper pants. You know, the huge ones with the weird, recycled-looking waffle texture, they swish really loudly when you…
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By Amy Fields She Fought For Her Life
Just like that, she stopped breathing. “Your little girl went to Georgia and brought back the flu.” The nurse was…
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I’m a New Mom and a Frontline Essential Worker—And it’s All Heavy
If pictures are worth a thousand words, this picture would be the one I choose to sum up my experience…
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By Melissa Neeb “We Are Tired. So Tired.” Nurses on the Frontlines Share Their Experiences
With staggering COVID-19 case numbers, hospitals at or near capacity, and death rates climbing, one almost becomes desensitized to the…
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By Jessica Swanda Our Parents Met Their First Grandbaby Through a Hospital Window, and it Was the Sweetest Thing Ever
I bought my firstborn into this world on June 17, 2020, in a labor and delivery ward with closed waiting…
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By Holly Kaeppel To Love a Child To Eternity
She lifted the young child into her arms and experienced, for the first time, a love so big her heart…
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By Tiffany Nardoni In Life After Loss, the Little Things Are Big
This sounds absolutely horrible. But it's real. And it's raw. And let's just be honest, we probably all have some…
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By Diana Kupershmit I Already Lost a Daughter—I Couldn’t Lose My Husband, Too
As I strained through the phone to hear my husband’s words—shallow, barely audible, delivered in the staccato cadence in which…
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By Taylor Campbell I Feel My Purpose in Coming Here Was To Save Her Life
Today was a beautiful day. My intubated patient who has been squeezing my hand for the last several days finally…
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By Tenley Adams My Husband is an ICU Nurse and I Haven’t Hugged Him in 3 Weeks
My heart hurts today. It's officially been three weeks since my husband, who is a nurse in the ICU, has…
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