I’ve always been a planner — building spreadsheets and crossing items off my to-do list. So when I became pregnant, I naturally sought to plan every last detail so that I would be fully prepared by the time the baby arrived. I gathered lists of friends’ product recommendations, bought every parenting book, and signed up for birthing classes for a month before my due date.
I thought I was perfectly prepared. And then my water broke at 33 weeks, and my whole life changed.
My daughter spent the first four weeks of her life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Mt.
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