30 Spence As soon as we arrive, Cyra gets her own room and nurses swarm around her, checking her vitals and things like that as soon as we get inside. I know that her going into labour this early is not good. We’d hoped that it wouldn’t happen for a couple more weeks. But with thirty-two weeks, she’s further along than we feared she might be. With four babies, thirty weeks is not uncommon, so every day they managed to stay inside her is better. Every day is one more day of development, and one day closer to them being able to survive on their own without machines once they’re born. After the first battery of tests and the Beta doctor who has been overseeing Cyra’s pregnancy for the last couple of months promising that he’d be back as soon as he had news about there being a timeslot a

