New Zealand is proving yet again that it is leading the way in terms of compassionate governing. The country’s parliament recently unanimously passed a bill that legislates paid bereavement leave after miscarriages and stillbirths. This makes them only the second country in the world to do this. India is the only other. (1) New Zealand...
At just 11 years old, Victoria Arlen lost the ability to eat, speak, walk, and move. Two rare conditions caused her to slip into a vegetative state. Doctors said that she would remain this way forever. Her family, however, never gave up, and neither did she. Four years later she woke up and came out...
When parents are expecting, they patiently wait for nine months to finally get that first look at their baby. Sadly, sometimes babies are born with conditions that current medical technology can not pick up in ultrasounds. This is what happened when Natasha and her husband met their son Raedyn for the first time. Their precious...
Receiving a terminal illness is never an easy diagnosis. It can be particularly difficult, however, when you have young children. They have a hard time understanding the permanence of death, let alone accepting that someone they love, such as a parent or grandparent, will soon be gone forever. It is still important to talk about...
Over the last several years, advertisers have felt the push from the public to include more diversity in their campaigns. While this has tended to include people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ communities, they still manage to fall short in people with disabilities. In 2016, a mom found this out first-hand when he...
Having triplets is rare in and of itself. These triplets, however, are extra-special. This is because they all had the same skull condition at birth, something doctors have never seen before. This is the story of the Howard triplets. The Rarest Triplets In The World Amy Howard and her husband Michael welcomed their triplet boys...
Being married to a soldier is not easy. There’s a lot of uncertainty, a lot of time spent alone, and, of course, a lot of fear. Fear that when your partner goes off to work each day, they might not return. When a soldier dies overseas, there are no “last moments” with them, not proper...
Grief and loneliness often go hand-in-hand. This is what, then 94-year-old Keith Davison of Morris, Minnesota experienced after his wife died of cancer in 2016. After 66 years of marriage and raising three children, his house was suddenly very quiet. That’s when, in 2017, he got the idea to install a pool for the neighborhood...
Imagine one day feeling perfectly fine, you go about your daily routine and nothing’s out of the norm. Then suddenly you feel like you’re getting the flu, only the symptoms are getting much worse by the hour. Eventually, you realize that you don’t have the flu at all, you have something much more severe –...
Life as a single parent is not easy. You’re trying to be a present and engaged parent for your children. At the same time, you likely have to hold down a career where you also need to be focused. There are chores to be done and bills to be paid, and on top of all...
There’s no question about it: Kids love to put things in their mouths. Babies especially. After all, they are curious by nature and are discovering the world around them. For most of us, if we saw our child putting rocks or dirt in their mouth, our first instinct would be to stop them. After all,...
Whether societal pressures or otherwise, many of us tend to fixate on our weight and how we look. For some, this manifests itself in healthy ways, such as eating well and exercising regularly. For others, however, disordered eating and exercise habits take over as we combat our fears of gaining weight or not looking a...
