Tag: mom

Austin Nurse Refuses to Evacuate Winter-Hit Neighborhood, Stays to Care for Neighbors in Need During Power Outage

Since freezing temperatures hit Texas, causing power outages and water shortages across the state, many have struggled to keep warm, wash, drink, and even flush their toilets. With neighbors in dire straights, nurse Emily Grigsby passed on the opportunity to leave her cold-stricken Austin neighborhood in favor of staying behind to help. Speaking to The Epoch…


Austin Nurse Refuses to Evacuate Winter-Hit Neighborhood to Care for Neighbors in Need During Power Outage

Since freezing temperatures hit Texas, causing power outages and water shortages across the state, many have struggled to keep warm, wash, drink, and even flush their toilets. With neighbors in dire straights, nurse Emily Grigsby passed on the opportunity to leave her cold-stricken Austin neighborhood in favor of staying behind to help. Speaking to The Epoch…


Triplet Mom Learns It Really Takes a Village to Raise a Child: ‘You’re Not Alone!’

After a devastating miscarriage, a newly expectant mom learned that she was carrying not one but three babies. The journey that followed was a crash course in how to ask for help when life gets overwhelming. Rachel Cho, of Fishers, Indiana, married Samuel Cho in 2015. The couple was soon expecting their first child, fulfilling…


Business Owner Gifts New Car to Struggling Single Mom of Four After Hers Was Stolen

A struggling single mom of four has received a life-changing gift: a new set of wheels, almost one year after her car was stolen from outside her home in Chicago, Illinois. Iashiskala Sims, whose liability insurance would not cover a replacement, was left asking others for favors. “I work at Walgreens,” Sims, 40, told WGN-TV. “I…


Career-Driven Mom Takes Year Leave to Focus on Son’s Speaking Woes, Shares It Never Held Her Back

When her son started having trouble at school, career-driven mom Ifeoma Chuks-Adizue made the difficult decision to take a work break to focus on him. Years later, her decision to prioritize her son has not only changed his life, but it hasn’t hindered her career path in the slightest. Ifeoma, from Lagos, Nigeria, shared on…


Girl, 3, Beats a Rare Pancreatic Tumor Diagnosed by Her Mom, Now on the Road to Recovery

Two Florida parents spent much of their 2020 in-home isolation consumed by a mystery: What was wrong with their little girl? When trips to the hospital proved fruitless, the toddler’s mother decided to take matters into her own hands. Fortunately, she ended up correctly identifying a rare life-threatening disease. Her daughter, finally on the right…


Mom Fights for Toddler With Half a Functioning Heart Who Doctors Say May Not Live Past 30

Greyson, a brave toddler, has undergone 10 surgeries for a congenital heart defect and pain that’s more than some people will ever experience, all in his short course of life. His parents have been told that he might not live past 30; however, his family keeps on fighting, and the resilient baby has never lost…


Mom of Autistic Boy Writes ‘Thank You’ Blog to Little Girl Classmate Who ‘Likes Him Just the Way He Is’

Kate, a stay-at-home mom who lives in Colorado with her kids and husband, Steve, is continually inspired by their three children, all of whom have special needs. Having struggled with judgment from others toward her differently abled kids, Kate was touched when a little girl at her son Nicholas’s kindergarten took a shine to him….


Obese Mom Drops 154lb After She Was Forced Off Fairground Ride for Being ‘Too Big’

An obese mom of three shed 154 pounds (approx. 70 kg) after being told to get off a fairground ride for being too overweight. Sarah Knowles, 28, from Georgia, decided to turn her life around after she was left humiliated for being “too fat” for a fairground ride and told she needed to get off….


Pregnant Mom With Stage-4 Cancer Refuses Abortion, Risks Own Life by Delaying Treatment

A mom had to make the ultimate sacrifice after being diagnosed with aggressive cervical cancer during her pregnancy. Sarah Milner, 30, decided against terminating her pregnancy to save her baby after receiving the heartbreaking diagnosis at 21 weeks. Medics had advised the mother of three, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, to abort her pregnancy. However, the…