JUNIPER: THE GIRL WHO WAS BORN TOO SOON

Combining medical reporting and memoir, this book will take readers inside the lives of two parents fighting for the survival of their impossibly tiny daughter.

The story ends with a happy ending. At the time of writing, Juniper is two years old. She was conceived with the help of an egg donor, born by C-section after only 4 months pregnancy and recovering for six months in intensive neonatlogical care. She is a healthy and happy baby.

This is a story from the cutting edge of science and medicine, and from the outer limits of possibility. A narrative that maps the latest advances in human reproduction and neonatology. This story chronicles survival that depends equally on the dispassion of machines and the mysterious power of human touch.
Kelley Benham French was on of two 2013 Pulitzer finalists for this story. Her husband Tom Frend won a Pulitzer himself for his journalism. As a couple the collected all the data there is about the birth and life of their daughter. Told with immense writing skills, this narrative is deeply moving, controversial and informative.