The Early Birds Paperback by Jennifer Minton

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (2007-05-08)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781400079469
• Item Weight: 204.12 grams
• Dimensions: 7.93 x 5.23 x 0.6 cm

In the winter of 2002, Jenny Minton delivered her sons, Sam and Gus. She was thirty-one weeks pregnant, and her boys, conceived through in vitro fertilization, were more than two months early. Both boys were placed on immediate life support, and for sixty-four days they hovered, critically ill, in the neonatal intensive care unit of a New York City hospital. The Early Birds is a record of their time there and the story of Minton's harrowing, triumphant quest to bring her sons home.

About the Author

Jenny Minton is a former book editor. She lives outside Hartford, CT, with her husband and three sons and is a freelance book-reviewer for the Hartford Courant.