An Abecedarian Nocturne for the NICU Moms
An angel got its wings today, the caption reads beneath a photo of a mother’s baby the size of a hand posted to the Facebook NICU parents page. Night nurse clicks around vital sign jumbo screens. The whir of my breast pump punctuates each beat as I doom scroll through pictures and pleas –...
Childbirth in Alabama
Tomorrow my son turns ten. Double digits. Passes out of the smaller numbers forever. It makes me remember how small he was at the beginning, four pounds, four ounces. Not, I soon learned, a really small baby; large, in fact, next to his NICU classmates, one of the lucky big premature babies moved, after the...