Ep 29: From Breaking Coffee Tables to the NICU with Sara Schaber Fitterer

Sarah Huffman and Sara Schaber Fitterer go back...way back to Mr Randle's biology class in the 10th grade. They've been friends ever since. 

With that kind of history, expect great stories, including getting dumped at a Sarah Mclachlan concert, being roomies after college, their "anything for money" parties,  relationships, marriage....then a baby. 

A baby that was born at 25 weeks.  Sara shares the story of the day she gave birth to a preemie. The ambulance ride, the comedy troop, the bedpan, and Al Roker. 

At under two pounds, Jackson was the size of a ruler wearing diapers the size of a credit card. 

Sara shares the story of a world being thrown upside down. Hours in the newborn intensive care unit, the amazing nurses, and the emptiness of leaving every night without your baby. 

The bumps were frightening until the day Jackson was allowed to go home.

Sara details Jackson's bravery and fight for life, and the stress as she and her husband experienced all of this for the first time.

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Magical Quotes

"This is my son. Screw all of you. He is going to make it"

"We're not going to shy away from doing things. We will do it and make it work. And if people stare at him, I will stare right back."

"Nobody will ever know what you've gone through expect you and the other NICU moms"