My daughter was born in the spring of 2008 about ten weeks ahead of schedule. My pregnancy progressed normally until suddenly it didn’t. She weighed a little less than three pounds at birth and spent the first six weeks of her life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). My husband and I felt completely unprepared not only to suddenly be parents, but to adequately understand and meet the needs of such a small, new person. When we brought her home from the hospital, we relied not only on advice from the nurses in the NICU and her pediatrician, but also the occupational therapists that...