Anxious Questions, Awkward Conversations

and other ways we try to find each other.

My baby girl was born without a voice. My first glance of her little face, was as it contorted with the effort of trying to cry - and I couldn’t take my eyes off her silent screaming. The first 24 hours of her life were filled with people I didn’t even meet putting tubes and cameras into her throat, and more than one tightly swaddled trip through MRI…