Baby Formula at Rock Bottom, Poopy Underpants as a Comeback

I knew I was poor, but I hadn’t felt truly poor until a baby shower in the summer of 2015

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In the spring of 2014, our finances began to unravel. Over the course of that spring, summer, and fall, our business failed, we downsized, our adoption fell through, and then I went into labor at 24 weeks. By the…