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All I Could Do Was Cry

What I hoped to be an average night at work, turned out to be one of the most traumatic of my life. I work as a Registered Nurse on the Ob-Gyn floor at a local hospital. One of my patients was a young married woman in her mid to late twenties. The couple had been trying for several years to conceive and the wife was now eighteen weeks along with...

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The Road to Adoption
The Road to Adoption

The word "adoption" stirs up strong emotions. For some the word represents the fulfillment of a life long dream.  For others, it speaks of one of the hardest choices of all.   Julie Stobbe, founder of adoption awareness group Act of Life, has this to say about her own experience with adoption: "Through the years my birth mother had become my...

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I Wasn’t Ready to be a Grandma
I Wasn't Ready to be a Grandma

Facing the unexpected? Don't do it alone, talk to a confidential email mentor. It’s been several years now, but I can still clearly picture the day I found out my teenage daughter was pregnant. I remember her standing in the kitchen saying, “Mom, embrace it!” My initial response to Amber’s words were, “Yeah, right, that’s easy for...

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