Every mother has a story, every story has a beginning. This is forty-two weeks in the making-and a lifetime in the living. When I first saw you, it wasn’t a wow moment. It wasn’t like in the movies where the doctor hands over the baby and exclaims, “Congratulations, you have a beautiful, bouncing baby boy!” That cinematic image was far from my reality. I didn’t get to hold you right away, to welcome you into the world. My heart was simply grateful because you were alive. You
