No One Prepares You…

Stella Samuel
4 min readFeb 25, 2024
female graduate in cap and gown holding rolled diploma. her eyes are closed and a smile spreads across her face with a look of pride.

No one prepares new parents for the moment the doctors and nurses are gone and mom is suddenly in a hospital room with a brand new baby all alone, for endless sleepless nights, for nights when, in the dark of night, George Noory’s voice is all you have in an attempt to grasp sanity, for pacing hours upon hours with a colicky baby when the football hold stops working.

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Stella Samuel

Stella Samuel is a women’s fiction and children’s literature author, editor, script coordinator, writing coach, and believer in smiles. StellaSamuel.com