num_pages: 272
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Early Birds: A Mother's Story for Our Times
titlecomplete: The Early Birds: A Mother's Story for Our Times
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Vintage