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Miracle Birth Stories of Very Premature Babies

An Excerpt

By Timothy Smith

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From Chapter 1
This certainly wasn't the way I envisioned becoming a father. You know, you always hear about the usual routine: Lamaze classes; the expectant mother's sudden contractions; the future dad's harried drive from home to hospital. Nobody could have predicted that this was going to be happening, that a baby due in March 1995 was entering this world in Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Four. Even so, I wanted to get in on some of the usual stuff. I tied a mask around my face and put on hospital garb, complete with slippers and hair net.

Alone I sat with my thoughts. Was Donna doing OK? What about the baby? Were we going to have a boy, or a girl? Oh well, I knew if the C-section was successful, and if doctors hooked the baby up to the state-of-the-art technology before something dire happened, everything would be all right. Then I remembered another comforting thought. I, too, was born extremely premature in December 1956. Nine or 10 weeks early and weighing just a few pounds, if that. And back then, it was truly an exercise in "sink or swim." Miracle Birth Stories of Very Premature BabiesLook at me now, I thought. I'm a relatively healthy adult. If I could make it in the medical pre-historic age, this child could make it with all the advances and specialized health care now available. No sweat, just keep thinking positive.

Meanwhile, family from both sides by now had filtered into the waiting room, located just down the hallway from "The Station," where I sat alone. It was now Sunday, November 20. "Swoooooosh..."


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