One of the tough lessons we learn as kids is that life just isn’t fair, but that lesson comes in different ways and often depends on things kids have no control over.
Where we live, the color of our skin and who we are born to are just a few factors that can affect the health of a pregnancy and the care a newborn receives.
My kids are lucky. I had excellent prenatal care, our home was just minutes from a hospital with a NICU that was staffed with every provider we could possibly need, we had health insurance that had no lifetime limitations and, because they are triplets, the hospital staff had been preparing specifically for us.