Human Miracles

This little girl was born at 21 weeks and is now ready to go home after a few months in the hospital. Our friends in Singapore had twins born very prematurely. When they were born, you could hold one in each palm. I can remember the stress and worry the parents had to go through as each day's crisis and prognosis progressed. We used to go and pick the parents up and take them home alternately for a rest and the worry was often whether they would be there in the morning. They are now seven, but you would never know now anything about their dramatic early days, looking at them.

Our own kids were either a little early or a little late. Ryan was born two days after Hannah's second birthday, ten days late. Hannah's birthday party was very stressful for Elizabeth, worrying that she would have kids with the same birthday. As it is, it is two years and two days. What to do when you only have sex once a year.