Amy Sobek in Loving Memory of Sandra

Jessica’s home is bursting at the seams with life and love. Seriously, it is literally bursting at the seams. When I talk with her, one-year-old Elias is careening around while she sits on the floor, surrounded by toys. Another mom is in the background with her baby in tow. Somewhere out of view there are […]

The end of expectations . . . When your baby spends 127 days in the NICU, life is definitely crazy, Ashley explained. “It would be the middle of the night and I’d be home, pumping milk for MJ (short for Mathew Jr.). I’d call the NICU and ask how MJ was doing. That was my […]

First Miracle and then Faith . . . Like too many women, especially women of color, Destiny didn’t feel heard when she was in the hospital. Admitted for the last two months of her pregnancy, the mama-to-be was pregnant with twins. Considered especially high-risk, her twins were Mono-mono twins, also known as monochorionic-monoamniotic or MCMA […]

Planning and preparing for baby . . . We were so excited to find out we were pregnant. My husband Christian and I each had two children from a previous relationship. His were young adults while mine were preschool and kindergarten age. Eager to bring our two families even closer together, we had made the […]