Someone always needed a bottle.

I learned to shower in five minutes and eat lunch standing up.

Some nights I was so exhausted I cried over nothing at all.

Other nights a baby fell asleep against my shoulder and I felt such astonishment that I couldn’t imagine ever being lonely again.

Callum did not appear at the hospital.

He did not ask to meet the children through the channels we had provided.

I stopped checking my phone every time it vibrated.