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Eva
From that day forward, my life changed completely.
As soon as I could walk and the nurses allowed me to leave my hospital bed, I shuffled like a stoop-shouldered old woman to the NICU to sit with Skylar. She was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. But looking at her scared the crap out of me. She was so little, so breakable and delicate. How was I supposed to protect her and care for her? I knew absolutely nothing about any of this.
It didn’t seem to matter how many parenting articles I’d read, nothing had prepared me for this. This was real.
A nurse entered while I was sitting in the rocking chair, my arm resting inside the hand hole of the incubator to softly pet her miniature fingers.
“Sweetie, you probably need to head back to your room and get some rest now. You’ve be
