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    Mom story: I was pregnant with cancer

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Apr 12, 2012
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    While visiting her dad in the Czech Republic in spring 2008, Jana Hartmanova found a lump on her breast. The next day, her doctor...
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    Mom story: I was a teen mom

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Apr 5, 2012
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    Cristy May Dickinson, 35, of Milton, Ontario, remembers overhearing two women talking trash about a pregnant teen: that the girl was...
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    Mom Story: My daughter has Williams syndrome

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Mar 22, 2012
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    Lisa Ridgley, a 36-year-old loan processor in Frederick, Maryland, treats her two daughters, Emma, 8 1/2 years old, and Tatum, 6,...
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    Mom story: My crafting saved us

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Mar 15, 2012
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    Through setbacks and struggles, Karyn Ranzau, 38, of Louisville, Kentucky, kept a positive outlook and brainstormed to change her...
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    Mom story: I was homeless with three young kids

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Mar 8, 2012
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    Reahmaria McMillan, 31, of suburban Detroit, moved with her three young daughters to a shelter when she felt she had nowhere else to...
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    Mom story: My mom was my surrogate

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Mar 1, 2012
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    Every time Sapna Singh, 36, of Laguna Hills, California, looks at her beautiful 5-year-old son, she thinks about how her mother’s...
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    Mom story: "I live on a goat farm"

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Feb 23, 2012
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    PJ Jonas, 39, left the city life behind with her husband, Jim, and their children for rural Indiana and never looked back. With the...
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    Mom story: I fought to adopt my foster son

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Feb 16, 2012
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    Alison Sherman, 47, of Toledo, Ohio, endured fertility issues and invasive medical procedures but her greatest struggle didn’t come...
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    Mom story: I battle diabetes while raising toddler twins

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Feb 9, 2012
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    Sysy Morales, 28, of Roanoke, Virginia, learned she had type 1 diabetes at age 11 and she struggled with accepting and managing her...