2014 was the year the world discovered the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the year a missing Malaysian plane became a ghost, the year we all started swiping right. But for me, 2014 was the year I learned that love doesn't wait for the due date.
For 47 days, I learned the vocabulary of alarms. Bradycardia. Apnea. Desat. I learned that a baby can wear a diaper the size of a Post-it note. I learned that hope is a tiny, stubborn thing—a flutter of an eyelid, a pinkening toe, a nurse’s slight nod when she checks the monitor. premature -2014-
Love comes early. It comes fragile and furious, wrapped in wires and tape, fighting for every breath. 2014 was the year the world discovered the
She came twelve weeks early.