“Half Baked” is a memoir written by Alexa Stevenson. The sub-title is an apt description of the book: “The Story of my nerves, my newborn, and how we both learned to breathe”. The author took me intimately into her experiences with assisted fertility, prematurity and all its attendant crises. As a NICU nurse, I found it to be a real page turner. I would recommend it to all NICU staff, as it portrays what we know so well as our routine, from the importantly different perspective of one mother. What a privilege and responsibility to walk that road with a family! It uplifts in that it shows us the subtle movement one makes in personal evolution as we face and cope with crisis.
The Chinese character for the word crisis is a double symbol, uniting “danger” with “opportunity”. So true.
21Moons 