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 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. premature -2014-

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. Love comes early