Three days after an emergency C-section, my newborn daughter Rosalie was lying in the NICU on a ventilator because her lungs were not ready to work on their own. While I sat beside her incubator wondering whether she would keep improving, my mother texted me about my sister Courtney’s gender reveal and ordered me to bring dessert as though nothing happening inside that hospital mattered.
Rosalie had arrived six weeks early at only four pounds, two ounces. I had seen her for seconds before the medical team rushed her away, and by the time I …
Three days after an emergency C-section, my newborn daughter Rosalie was lying in the NICU on a ventilator because her lungs were not ready to work on their own. While I sat beside her incubator wondering whether she would keep improving, my mother texted me about my sister Courtney’s gender reveal and ordered me to bring dessert as though nothing happening inside that hospital mattered. Read More