“I am a mother to 8-year-old twin boys, Oliver and Wiley. I am bound to this identity the same as I am wife, doctor, daughter,
Category: Story
“In third grade, my teacher asked the class what we wanted to be when we grew up. The responses were mostly ‘doctor,’ ‘nurse,’ ‘astronaut’ or
When Victoria and her husband Matthew welcomed their baby into the world, no one was more excited to meet her than Matthew’s parents. In the
“My husband, Scott, and I met in college in 2010. We were married in March 2016. We had gotten engaged the summer before and were
“My story… Our story… I’ve told it in bits and pieces, wrote parts in a hundred scattered places, and lived it a thousand times over.
“We had a fairy tale love story, but we did not get our happy ending. Empty arms and silent hallways haunted us every single day.
The Pregnancy Test “I was staring down at the floral pattern on the couch when she told me I was a pregnant teen. I pretty
“Sometimes when I say I’m okay, I need someone to look me in the eyes and say, ‘I know you’re not.’ My daughter did just
“I remember the first time I knew something was wrong. Like really wrong. I was sitting in the middle of my Physics 211 midterm during
Our Surrogacy Journey “I always knew I wanted to be a father. However, when I met my late husband Tim in 2007, he expressed on