After her first baby, Rachel Selman discovered something infuriating: there was no roadmap for getting back to being herself physically. Six weeks of rest, then you're "cleared"? Her body had other plans.

So she became a pelvic health specialist and wrote the current US guidelines for return to activity postpartum. Yeah, you read that right.

After losing her daughter Maddy to cancer at just 14 months old, Philadelphia mom Jackie Didio channeled her grief into purpose. One month after Maddy's passing, she founded the Madelyn James Pediatric Cancer Foundation: an organization providing deep, wrap-around financial and emotional support specifically to families with babies facing cancer.