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The unfortunate mother, Heather, said that she lost her young son and has since been working hard to share her important message with all parents.

Heather shared her story on her social media account under the heading “The Blue Stain”. As you read it for yourself, you quickly understand why it is pulling at so many people’s heartstrings.

One day, the mother was picking up some slime off the floor that her daughter had dropped. It’s then that everything became obvious to her.

Her daughter had done her best to clean up the stain left by the slime, but Heather naturally had to get in there too and help. She was, as natural for any parent, annoyed by the situation. But as she began muttering under her breath, she suddenly remembered a different stain. A stain from 14 years prior. At that time, Heather had of two-year old triplets as well as a four year old little boy. She did not have her daughter yet. On this particular evening, she was struggling to get her 4 active boys into bed. With four young children in the house, life was nothing but a tornado of activity and non-stop chaos. She spent most of the time chasing her kids — often feeling like she was facing the potential of a third world war. “My hands were full, but so was my heart.” As night drew near that evening 14 years ago, she recalled the struggle of feeding and bathing all four boys, all the while cleaning up after the usual mess.

The children had music blasting and ran around singing and dancing, full of energy as usual. This would be the last time in a while that this kind of atmosphere would prevail in the house… for several reasons. Amidst the chaos and her struggle to get the boys in bed, she looked down at the carpet and saw a large ink-blue stain. One of the triplets, Jacob, stood nearby, broken pen in hand — the ink had spread all over the carpet. It was also all over his pajamas, his body and more or less everything else in the room! “We had only lived in this house for six months and now the carpet was completely ruined. We scrubbed that stain for an hour that night, but yet it remained.”

The stain continued to get on her nerves and she was annoyed at it every time she saw it. “It made me feel angry and it made me feel like such a failure for leaving out the pen where my young son could reach it. That blue stain was just a big fat negative in my life. I hated it,” Heather says. But as her frustration over the stain continued to grow, suddenly, it all went away, in a single, life-changing moment. The little boy who had broken the pen that day was soon diagnosed with cancer. And two years following the heart-shattering news, Jacob was gone. As Jacob went to heaven, the blue stain remained. “It was still there . . . and now . . . it was a constant reminder of my son. It was a constant reminder of my frustration over something so trivial . . . something so unimportant in the scheme of life.” Heather now wants mothers everywhere to realize that young children will of course always make a mess. Raising young children can be incredibly frustrating and as they get older, a parent faces new trials and challenges. For Heather, the blue stain is now a constant reminder that life with children can be messy, but is so worth living.

According to the experts, near-death experiences can occur when someone faces a life-threatening situation such as cardiac arrest or is under deep anesthesia.

Some people have reported the feeling of leaving their body and observing their surroundings. But, it was something else for 55-year-old Kevin.

During an interview, the brave man, Kevin, reportedly shared his stunning experience with the afterlife. Kevin said that his heart suddenly stopped beating while he was being treated for calciphylaxis, which is an uncommon disease. Read the full story here ▶

According to the court documents, the 50-year-old disabled woman, Asenka, was reportedly charged with murder for allegedly killing her mother.

The woman appeared in court and had an interesting request for the judge. Per reports, Asenka was charged with the murder of her 75-year-old mother at the home they shared and then dug a grave for her in the backyard.

She was brought into the court in a wheelchair, where she requested ‘the unexpexted’. Among the many people who commented about this incident, one person remarked: “Give her what she wants.” Read the full story here ▶

The 21-year-old woman, Alanna, and her 25-year-old fiancé Rick lived with her son and their pooch Koela. Were it not for Koela, the mother and her son would probably not be around today. When Alanna was pregnant with her son Lincoln she began to experience sharp pains in her lower back.

She went to hospital, but doctors told her not to be concerned. They said it was a side effect of her pregnancy and nothing to be overly worried about.

So Alanna returned home and continued with her daily life. She knew, however, that not all was right with her body. And she wasn’t the only one; Keola obviously felt the same. Read the full story here ▶

Happiness and tragedy struck on the same day for Matt Logelin in March 2008. His wife, Liz, gave birth to their baby girl and within hours had passed away.

Liz hadn’t had an easy pregnancy and was on bed rest for more than four weeks, she started a blog to help pass the time and keep friends and family updated.

Liz gave birth to Madeline via C-section seven weeks early and got to see her baby for several brief moments. Read the full story here ▶

Per reports, one day, Missy looked out and saw a cat carrying a small animal by the scruff its neck. The first thing that came to her mind was, wow that kitty just caught a nice breakfast and she felt a little bad for the small creature. So, the woman kept her on the cat as it traveled with the small animal in it’s mouth. She was intrigued, got a little closer and realized this was no squirrel or chipmunk it was a puppy. Missy reportedly had a female dog that had just given birth to a litter of puppies.

She arrived at her place one evening, and quickly realized five of the puppies had vanished. They were too young to run away she thought. So, the unfortunate woman then began asking neighbors if they saw her heard anything because the puppies had magically disappeared. When she got to the woman’s house who initially saw the cat carrying the small mammal by the scruff; the woman quickly realized that the cat she saw was stealing Missy’s puppies! She told Missy how she watched the cat gently pick up each puppy one by one and bring them to a random shed or trailer where she could do whatever she wanted with the puppies out of view of any spectators.

Then as they began piecing all the missing parts together, they found the cat’s owner Ryan who informed Missy that their cat was recently pregnant, gave birth to kittens but tragically none of them survived. They told Missy that cat had been pretty depressed and acting strange since she lost all her babies. The mother of the puppies, Smoochie, had simultaneously just given birth to her litter at the same time, the cat lost her babies. For some strange reason Smoochie, had no interest in her puppies and her motherly instincts just weren’t there. This does happen, although not very often, dogs and cats both sometimes have a litter and basically just have no interest in raising them or just abandon them.

So, when the car saw that Smoochie wasn’t nurturing and taking care of her puppies, the feline’s motherly instincts which were already surfaced, had kicked into full gear. The amazing cat would travel over to Smoochie’s property and just pick the puppies up and take them to a safe shed. Smoochie would watch and just let it happen because she had no interest and being a mom. The cat had been pregnant just a short time before the puppies were born, so she had milk to spare. When they went to the shed where the cat was bringing the tiny canines, they saw that she had remarkably been nursing them, just as if they were her kitten! The dog was totally fine with the cat becoming their adopted mom and basically handed over all responsibility to the motherly feline.

The world is increasingly an unsafe place. Even without taking into account the many disasters that can already happen caused by sheer bad luck and Mother Nature taking its course, there are far too many things that are outside our control.

What we can control to ensure our own protection, then, is incredibly limited – especially so when it comes to the safety of our children.

With a mind that is still growing and developing to understand the world around them, children are incredibly vulnerable to those who would take advantage of them.  Read the full story here ▶

Although it goes largely unacknowledged, there truly is so much work involved in becoming a parent.

Just trying to get pregnant alone can be a real struggle for couples who have to deal with various health issues or complications.

And that’s without taking into account the difficulty of pregnancy and the subsequent childbirth! So it is without a doubt an event of much relief and joy when you finally have your newborn child safe and sound in your arms. Read the full story here ▶

After a 6-year-old boy failed to show up to school, police investigated the family’s Missouri home to discover the child alone and his parents dead after a suspected murder-suicide.

The parents, who were identified as James Delao, 50, and Kimberly Delao, 46.

Valley Park School District reportedly called police after the 6-year-old child did not show up for school. Upon the police’s arrival, the child opened the door, and the officers found both parents dead. Read the full story here ▶

Calling all parents: how would you feel if your child wasn’t allowed to fail in school? At first mention, the idea might not sound half-bad; after all, schoolwork is tougher for some kids than others.

Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to even the playing field, right?

Well, it’s that very idea–and in this case, that very school policy— that has prompted a teacher to leave her teaching position. Read the full story here ▶