3 MONTHS LATER - REBECCA
The snow had just started to melt when we finally got the green light to bring Belle home.
She’d stayed in the NICU for three months, and finally, the doctors had deemed her big and healthy enough to come home: she had overcome all the difficulties the circumstances of her birth had put along her path and was now a beautiful and healthy baby girl, who loved hugging and being hugged, laughing, and her siblings.
Goddess, she absolutely adored them – and they adored her.
Reiner and I had spent those three months alternating nights and days in the hospital, to be with her, and almost every night the kids begged to come, to stay by their little sister.
“Still okay?” Reiner asked, looking nervously at us through the rearview mirror. He was driving us back home –
