Too Soon
Too Soon
30 weeks gestation seems too soon to be born. Too soon to meet chicken legged, ruddy, scrunched up beings. Too soon to be thrust into the NICU after our last baby died. In the NICU. Too soon to gaze upon tiny fingers and toes, bruised hands and feet from too many needles and blood tests. Too soon to take any of it in. I don’t think about that time very often. The whole nine weeks went in a blur of premature experiences. Tubes and wires and alarms beeping in some machinery induced cha
