Crash test mommy in real time
Poking around on the Net found me an extraordinary woman who suddenly became a mother after the utterly unexpected death of her younger sister left a baby born one month prematurely in the hospital…
I don’t know how she did it except that well, she did it the way we all do it.
You just do it. You figure out the first thing that needs to be done, and you do it. Then the next thing and the next, until lo and behold, you are a mother when you never expected to be one. As she so rightly remarks in one of her posts, she had zero time in which to prepare. She had not been dreaming about pregnancy with a husband or adoption with an agency. Death took her sister and left this child.
Check in on Deborah and Andreas from time to time over at Switching Life Gears and see how well they are doing. I’ll start you here, a few months after everything changed.
My hat is off to you, lady.
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1 opinion for Crash test mommy in real time
angel
Oct 15, 2007 at 4:14 pm
hey i’m first!
i’ll definitely be going over there!
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