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Kristen Mascia is a freelance writer and editor who covers health, parenting and social trends.

  1. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Went Into Heart Failure at 20 Weeks“I could feel this gurgle in my chest, from my lungs. You know when a kettle boils, that bubbling sound? That’s kind of what it was like.”
  2. how i got this baby
    The NICU Nurse Who Adopted Her Patient“I had helped deliver dozens of babies, but there was something about this one.”
  3. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Nearly Died After Her C-section“As soon as I got into the recovery room, I knew something was off.”
  4. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Fostered 24 Kids and Adopted One“Dropping off my first foster baby was crushing. A couple days later, I found a rogue baby sock and broke down. I was really surprised by the grief.”
  5. how i got this baby
    The Single Dad Who Had a Baby Via Surrogate“I always say I’m doing this solo, not alone. Alone sounds sad. Solo sounds like more of an adventure.”
  6. how i got this baby
    The Mom Whose Water Broke at 26 Weeks in a Foreign Country“They put me in an ambulance and transferred me to this huge yellow building that looked like a crumbling cathedral.”
  7. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Got Ovarian Cancer After Having Her Ovaries Removed“We’ve fought so hard; we created our child, you know? What if I die and I leave her without a mom? What does that look like?”
  8. how i got this baby
    The Mom Racing to Diagnose Her Child’s Life-Threatening Food AllergiesI was panicking, thinking, Is my next call to my husband going to be me telling him our baby died?
  9. how i got this baby
    The Mom of 3 Who Has Been a Surrogate 4 Times“I’ve come to look at it as extreme babysitting. I tell myself I’m babysitting an embryo, and then a fetus.”
  10. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Lost Her Home the Day Before She Gave Birth“When I returned to my apartment later that afternoon, my key didn’t work. They had changed the locks while I was gone.”
  11. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Had Three Babies with Cystic Fibrosis“We were at my parents’ house when we got the call. I lost it.”
  12. parenting
    The Single Mom Who Fostered Three Afghan Refugee Teenagers“You can’t fathom what they’ve been through. You can look at them and judge them, but until you know their story, you can’t understand.”
  13. parenting
    The Dad Who Became a Widower at 30 With 8-Month-Old Twins“I couldn’t stop thinking, How am I going to do this without her? We wanted to do this together.”
  14. parenting
    The Mom Who Was Fired a Week Before Her Due Date“My son was born in early June. And on the day he was born, I couldn’t stop thinking about the lawsuit.”
  15. parenting
    The Couple Whose Twins Survived Birth at 22 Weeks“He said, ‘There’s no point. Your babies are not going to survive.’ He kept saying that: ‘There’s no point.’”