Having A Premature Baby (Part 1)

I am not amazing and I am not strong. I have done what all mothers try to do for their children and that is the best they can. I have been asked to tell my story so that my experiences may help others. I find the idea of writing about my experience harder than living it. I guess that is because at the time I didn't have time to think about things too much, my …

…had expressed overnight to be frozen away for my baby. My son who was having 3 mls of milk every 4 hours. My milk. I was able to do something. That is the hardest part, feeling so useless in the grand scheme of things. The nurses do all the day to day care as he was too sick and small for me to do anything. So expressing became my way of feeling like I was doing something.