Oh Baby

Don't know if I mentioned this here yet or not, but my aunts are having babies. Babies galore. Both of my mom's sisters, one of whom is around my mom's age, are having their firsts very soon or early next year. The younger one is having a girl, the elder is having twins, a boy and a girl. The elder's in the hospital right now, confined there until she delivers. The babies will be preemies...sometime in the next two weeks, I'll have two very new, very tiny cousins (currently about 2.5 pounds each). Then in another month or two, the younger aunt is due to have her little girl too.

How scary must it be, for your body to be almost unrecognizable, to be stuck in the hospital where doctors and nurses examine every last inch of you, and to know that your children will, without a doubt be born prematurely, and to have no way of knowing how permanent the damage is? Like any new parent, you're just praying for them to be healthy....but in this case, the odds are already stacked against them.