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I’m one of those people who couldn’t have children. I spent almost a decade trying fertility treatments and finally, via invitro fertilization, was pregnant with twins. I miscarried one at 8 weeks and the second at 16 weeks. That second one not only killed the baby (a girl) but almost killed me.
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I’m one of those people who couldn’t have children. I spent almost a decade trying fertility treatments and finally, via invitro fertilization, was pregnant with twins. I miscarried one at 8 weeks and the second at 16 weeks. That second one not only killed the baby (a girl) but almost killed me.
11 months later we were blessed to adopt a newborn baby girl who is now 34 with three children of her own. She and her husband are contemplating a fourth. They are conservative Christians who take their kids to church and have them enrolled in a Christian school. Their many friends are doing the same, which gives me hope for the future. Being a mother is the most important job on the planet.
Women like Handler will wind up old, alone and even more miserable than they are today.
My mother had a still-born in 1937 that almost killed her also. Five years later, she and my daddy adopted me as a 3 week old infant. I could never have hoped to have had a more loving, caring family. I was raised always knowing that I was adopted (chosen, special). My mother did such a good sales job on that one that I used to feel sorry for my playmates who weren't adopted!
So thrilled for you! God’s plans sometimes are so clear to see.
Our daughter has relationships with each of her birth parents, who she found via the internet when she was in her early 20’s. Her birth father danced with her in the father-daughter dance at her wedding. My husband danced the first half and then asked her birth father to finish the second half. Not a dry eye in the room! But she knows who her “real” parents are.
When my son would go to other children's yards to play, he enjoyed going to our neighbor's yard to play on such great swings, slides, etc. That child was adopted, and did he ever rub it in that he was chosen and picked out "special." He'd say to other kids, "Your mom just got what popped out!"
Cookie- when my 3 adopted siblings got old enough to ask why I wasn’t adopted but they were, she had a stock answer- “Because after him we couldn’t take anymore chances.
Very pleased our kids are adopting and fostering.
And that NFL player gets raked over the coals for praising that very thing. One day in the market a woman remarked to my wife, "You're a stay-at-home-mom, aren't you." She followed that with, "I can tell that by how your daughter behaves." That was a long time ago. Funny the things you remember...
Years ago, I asked the Head Mistress at our daughters' private NY school whether she could see a difference in children whose mother's stayed at home versus those that worked. Unequivocally, she replied, "yes".
People have frequently complimented me on how well-behaved my kids are. Coulda fooled me!
Used to happen to me too. Kids behave differently with their parents than they do with other adults.
Ran into the same, often. We started checking our kids’ IDs. “THIS kid???” LOL
My daughter’s pediatrician knew that I was a stay at home mom because he only saw her once a year for her annual check-up. The kids who were in day care were in his office every couple of months with the latest germ which was being passed around.
Handler is also just plain ugly. Which explains a lot.
It's her behavior that's really 'ugly' - not exactly a role model.
...and, it emanates outward. 1st impressions matter.
Ugly on the inside, as well. She’s batting 0-2.
Beauty is skin deep /ugliness goes clear through Bubble.
Well said, brother.