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our story
I had my wisdom teeth removed earlier that week and it was a wednesday night and we had plans to go to a friend's house for dinner. I was feeling miserable, in a lot of pain and decided to stay home while my partner went to dinner with our friends. our SW called to tell us a baby girl had been born, she was a premie and was expected to need to stay in the NICU for another 2-4 weeks. The SW asked if we could come (5-6 hour drive) to the hospital and stay with her, learn to care for her, etc. So I called my partner and we spent the might making an elaborate plan for how we would share and also alternate the time spent at the hospital for a month (we were getting ready to move across ****ry in less than a month and we both needed to wrap up our jobs, we couldn't take a whole month off unexpectedly at that time). Any way, we set this complicated plan to each be at home working 3-4 days a week and for each of us to be with the baby 6 hours away 3-4 days a week too.
Then on Friday (less than 48 hours after the first call), we were called again and told our daugther was to be released from the hospital that day!! We were told we were not allowed to get her until Tuesday and that she would be in a temporary home for the weekend. Then on Sunday they called again and asked us to come the next day. Aliyah was in our arms on 7/17 and we all moved across the country (with court approval, of course) on 8/10. Just to complicate things further, we had done NO packing before Aliyah came home (we were trying to sell the house and wanted everyhting to stay looking lived in untiul the last minute -- plus we thought we still had a month before the move).
Katie
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