Cathy Chapaty

Baby Rocker Diaries Cathy Chapaty

On the maternity floor of an Austin, Texas, hospital, some parents trudge a long, lonely, ominous hallway toward double doors that open to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Those who enter are automatically part of a special club-one that no parent wants to be in. In this sweet, heartwarming, and sometimes heartbreaking memoir, author and volunteer baby rocker Cathy Chapaty takes readers behind those double doors into a world dedicated to nurturing these new lives-humming premature babies to sleep, burping gas-filled tummies, and providing safety and comfort to those born addicted to drugs. Week by week, she watches the babies grow bigger and stronger-and realizes that she is growing as wel