Melissa Harris, ONE POUND, TWELVE OUNCES: A Preemie Mother's Story of Loss, Hope, and Triumph
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Author Melissa Harris joins Zibby to talk about her award-winning memoir, One Pound, Twelve Ounces, which was actually her premature son's weight at birth. The two discuss how the book grew from a blog Melissa wrote to keep family members around the world updated about her son's progress, when she realized she had PTSD from the ninety-five days she spent in the NICU, and what her life with her children looks like now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:07.5 | And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer. |
| 0:12.7 | Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature. |
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| 0:41.2 | Melissa Harris is the author of 1 pound 12 ounces, a preemie mom's story of loss, hope, and triumph. |
| 0:47.3 | Melissa is a single mother of two children living in Oakland, California where she was raised. |
| 0:51.5 | She was on the fast track to being a partner in a mid-size ad agency when she gave birth to her second son, Sam, and the trajectory of her life changed. Melissa is now a work-from-home account manager for two virtual creative agencies in the Bay Area. In her free time, she drives kids from activities to appointments to playdates, volunteers at the neonatal intensive care unit at Alta Bayes Hospital, |
| 1:11.7 | where Sam was born, and helps her congresswoman fight for better health care for all Americans. |
| 1:15.9 | She lives in Oakland, California. |
| 1:17.7 | Welcome, Melissa. |
| 1:18.6 | Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss 1 pound, 12 ounces, |
| 1:23.6 | a preemie mother's story of loss, hope, and triumph. |
| 1:27.4 | Thank you. I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:29.8 | By the way, I was surprised in the book when the doctor found out that your baby was one pound, |
| 1:35.4 | 12 ounces, and he was like, wow, that's great. I thought that it would be sad that that was so small, |
| 1:41.5 | but instead he's like, what a triumph, what a victory that you got to one pound, 12 ounces, which is amazing. It was, and I mean, as a person who was not in the best mental shape at that point, I kept going, what are you talking about? One pound, and, you know, I'm going, oh, God, one pound 12 ounces. And he's like, wow, that's fantastic. And I'm and I'm like okay dude what thought he was a |
| 2:03.4 | little crazy but I wasn't going to say it since he was you know sewing me up and such wow well you |
| 2:09.5 | have had quite a journey to say the least I'm so sorry for all that you've been through and yet |
| 2:16.1 | so just in admiration of your determination |
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