Premature -2014- «FHD | 720p»

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. It comes fragile and furious, wrapped in wires and tape, fighting for every breath. premature -2014-

She came twelve weeks early.