Sophie Smith

He did not leave the hospital.

There was no bed for him.

And he slept on the floor next to my bed.

for three weeks.

He never even, didn't ever leave the hospital because he also knew that if anything was to happen, he didn't want to miss, you know, the birth of his children.

And he knew that I needed him.

So he stayed with me.

And actually, we got into a little rhythm and we used to, he used to read to me and we'd play Scrabble and we'd just, you know, hope and we...

And I think as we got closer to 24 weeks, that was a scary time because I had a conversation with the neonatologists from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and they told me, you have to be 24 weeks before we can consider, you know, saving your babies.

And when I got to 23 weeks, I was really scared because I kept thinking, we're so close, we're so close.

If anything goes wrong before I'm 24 weeks, you know, we're going from...

Zero, you know, no chance of survival.

At 24 weeks, they had told me that if I was, if my babies were born at 24 weeks, there'd be a 50% chance of survival.

Well, we made it to 24 weeks.

And on that day, we just were so relieved.

We were just like, yes, we're here.

We've made it 24 weeks.

So we're like, okay then, we're in here for the long haul.

We'll stay on bed rest for another 16 weeks.

My babies can come on time.