To ask which one sentence changed your life?

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I’ll start.

‘My god girl- You’re pregnant.’

Said by a Dr to a 14 year old me.

Go home and treat yourself to a large glass of wine. After all, you can now!

Said to me by a nurse in the Early Pregnancy Unit after telling me my baby had died. It made me decide never to take insensitive crap like that from anyone ever again.

Two.

"We are pleased to inform you that you have been offered a provisional place at the University of Huddersfield..."

and

"I've got this friend I want you to meet..."

And to everyone with good news

Being told i was pregnant after fertility treatment was a life changer and made us so happy

schrodinger

Thank you for your post...this is the second time ive heard something similar in two days . I must get dd checked

'I can't hold your hand, she doesn't like it'.

Said to me by dad. 'She' was my stepmother. I was 10.

missclare

I'm sorry, this is where we have to make the decision we talked about.

The lovely specialist telling me that this was the end of the battle to save my ten day old DD, the blood clots and bleeding had taken her from me and it was time to turn the machine off.

Why do you tell yourself you are such a terrible person when you wouldn't say the same to someone else who'd been through the same things?

Massive light bulb moment courtesy of a fabulous psychologist. Taught me not to hate myself.

nancy

I am getting off this thread...

“Nothing changes unless something changes”

I've had a few, including me proposing to DH (by mistake, I blurted it out, he said yes), finding out I was pregnant after years of IVF, and also a drunken DH saying:
Fancy moving to America.
So we did!

“don’t love you anymore and I’m leaving”

'I am sorry but you will never be able to have children'.

Was horrible but it taught me that you just cannot always have what you want.

More from me to everyone

I have a miscarriage one at 12 weeks too - my brain wont let me write the word though

Your Dd has been reported for having suicidal thoughts - school nurse yesterday
I'm just trying to love her but i want to fix her - i know it may not happen for a long time and it has to be her that does the fixing

DH: I'm applying to be a train driver

I thought he was crazy - perfectly steady flexible job in the civil service. Best thing that ever happened to us - his mental health is now so much better - he really wasn't cut out for office work and all the politics. He is at home more now during day then ever... so shift work not such a bad thing and pay not too bad.. enabling us to finally get on the property ladder which was a cause of unhappiness for him too.thought i'd throw a nice one in there

words not word

Fil on being offered another chocolate
"no thanks I couldn't... Well of course I could but I'm going to apply willpower"

If you'd have waited another 6 hours to come into a+e you'd be dead- sepsis from an untreated kidney infection

"Worry doesn't prevent negative outcomes."

Sorry these are all proper serious ones :(

'There is nothing more we can do for DD1.' She died.

See, I told you there was nothing there.

Said to me by an utter bag of a midwife on EPAU who refused to believe the 16 positive pregnancy tests I’d had in the preceding three weeks, weren’t all “broken” - whilst she was conducting an internal ultrasound, rather heavy-handedly, “because that’s what you came here for isn’t it?” (Actually all Id come for was a little reassurance that 16 positive pregnancy tests meant I had indeed been pregnant, even if I wasn’t anymore).

Shattered my confidence in healthcare professionals and caused a lasting phobia of any gynae examinations, all with that one sentence. I still harbour a great deal of resentment towards her, several years and two healthy DC later.

💐 to anybody on the thread who has lost a loved one or suffered illness.

"I don't know why he won't wake up. The surgery went to plan."
Said to me and my siblings by the Dr who had operated on our dad. He died 12 hrs later aged 59. Worst day of my life.

"Congratulations it's a girl" said the midwife, twice. Best 2 days of my life.

'His hearing isn't good. He's at the most severe level of hearing loss.' - a tearful audiologist to me, at my 7 week old sons hearing test.

"She doesn't pay rent to live in your head"

There’s no money left

Thought of another:

"Part of the reason we're letting you go is because the department is too white."