Best of 2013 – Our Favorite Heartwarming Stories

Each year, we like to take a moment to reflect on some of our best stories of the year. In our heartwarming section, we like to share those stories that inspire, encourage and remind us all that there is still a lot of good in the world.

Some remind that the love and bond of family is a gift to be treasured, not just during the holidays, but all year round:

• Two Sisters Deliver Twin Quadruplets Same Day
• Babies That Were Switched At Birth Re-united
• Grandma Gives birth to Twin Grand Daughters
• Dad clicks Unborn Baby’s Amazing picture holding Doctor’s Finger
• Teen Mom’s Photo Omitted from Yearbook Because She Posed with Her Child

 

Some show us that great strength can come from small packages and even some of the most unexpected places:

• Daughter’s Passion for Orphaned Children Leads Parents to Adopting Chinese Infant with Cancer
• Mother and Daughter Both Fighting Cancer, Diagnosed within Just a Week of Each Other
• Mother Says Pregnancy with Daughter Saved Her Life
• Sole Triplet Survivor Still Fighting for His Life Gives His Parents “Strength”
• 6-Year-Old Raises Over $30,000 to Help His Best Friend

 

These Good Samaritans remind us that there is still plenty of light and love in the world:

• Childless Couple Gets Baby Gift from Two Sisters
• Baby Girl Survives after Car Crash Leaves her Underwater
• Baby from India with Severe Hydrocephalus Discharged This Week from Hospital
• Doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital Give A Special Gift to a Special Child

 We’ve also been reminded many times this year that modern medicine helps to save so many lives – lives that might have otherwise been lost or permanently altered:

• Doctors Save Unborn Baby Through Surgery
• One-Year-Old with Multiple Seizures a Day First in U.S. to Receive New Type of Brain Surgery
• Three-Year-Old Boy Hears His Father’s Voice for the First Time after Breakthrough Surgery

 

Then there are the stories that are hard to read because joy and sadness, life and death, struggle and survival are often intertwined:

• Tiny Babies Cling to Life in Tacloban Makeshift NICU
• Clinically Dead Woman Comes Back to Life after Giving Birth!
• Pronounced Dead, Baby Girl Bounces Back to Life
• 4-year-old Saves Little Sister After Car Crash Kills Their Mother

 

See you next year! We hope that you make it one full of your own heartwarming memories!

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