Born Strong

In 2018 our daughter was born prematurely at around 33 weeks. She was tiny, frail and had to stay in the NICU for almost a month. It was an incredibly stressful start of becoming parents.
So when we were expecting our son, 2 years later, we did everything we could to prevent another premature birth (having had a premature birth is the strongest predictor of premature births).

And so at 30 weeks, in the very middle of pandemic, while Remote was taking off, our son was born. He was smaller and more fragile than our daughter. As the pandemic was in full force and no vaccines available, I was only allowed to see him a week after he was born. Six weeks later was the first time I was able to hold him at all. He stayed in the NICU for almost two months.

Today, both kids are happy and healthy and have little to nothing to show for the fact they were born prematurely. We were lucky with their outcomes, because it’s not always like that. In fact, premature births is the single largest cause of death of infants before age five.

To make the life of parents a little bit more informed, and maybe make them feel a little less alone in the journey of having a premature kid, Carla wrote a book about both our experience and science behind those kids that spent too little time in the oven.

That book is Born Strong.

our son in 2020

Get the book

You can buy the ~300 page book today at bornstrongbook.com.

All proceeds of the book are going to organizations doing research into prematurity and supporting parents of premature kids. We are donating copies to NICUs around the world.

The English version is available as paperback and digitally. The Portuguese and Dutch versions are set to arrive in a month or so.