“I never had the feeling that I wanted to harm my child, but I didn’t want to spend any time with her. There was just this gray colour in my life.” We applaud Hayden for bravely opening up about a devastating battle with addiction and depression and her heartbreaking decision involving her daughter, Kaya.
“At 11:56 a.m. on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, four days after losing his daddy, Maxley Russell Ferguson was born.”
“This has been an extremely difficult time that no words could properly explain. There is pain from our unfathomable loss but our hearts are filling from our little bundle of joy that Lauren has blessed us with.”
“His body was so swollen. It looked like he had been punched – they were like purple bruises over his whole body.”
“I was once asked what the itch felt like and I described it as a thousand ants crawling all over your body and not knowing where to scratch first. Looking back, those were the darkest days of my pregnancy and postpartum journey. Yet I hardly see anyone talk about this condition.”
“I remember it in the pit of my stomach when signing for the loan to renovate our house. In my hands, when giving a presentation at work. In the lump deep within when staring at the ultrasound and hearing no heartbeat. You would have noticed it in me if you looked up. It would be found in the absent days from work. The tired eyes and the shaking hands. At times you would have seen the tears.” This is a must-read, mums. Trust us.
“All I could smell was puppy slobber all over her head, which made me want to cry, and I felt sick to my stomach.”
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“It felt like I had lost everything. My sons were so young, my eldest was nine and my youngest had only just been born. How could I leave them so soon??”
“When the police showed up at the hospital, we were informed that Ashley had left town with the teens from the slumber party.
This would be the beginning of a tragic night full of mistakes made by both adults and minors.”Â
Chad Kempel decided to do something ‘outrageous’ to celebrate his quintuplet’s first birthday and honour his wife, Amy. He ran a marathon, pushing his five toddlers in a customised pram from the start line to the finish. But rather than collapse at the finish line, he just kept on running! Wait until you hear why!!Â
A former police officer and father is speaking out about nearly losing his daughter due to mould exposure in their police commissioned house.
“I know [my son] waited to see me again in the morning, before he left. So as far as signs and symptoms I’m not sure what to say because it was really quick and it looked like a normal stomach bug.” Our hearts are breaking for Shelby as she shares the story behind her son’s incredibly sudden death.