“We joke because I went from Ms. to Mrs. to Dr. to Mom literally in four days. Saturday, we got married. Monday, I defended my dissertation. And then Tuesday, she was born. Those were the wildest four days of our lives.”
Weeks before the pandemic hit last March, Eliana Castro was finishing up her PhD program at Michigan State University and had just accepted a job as assistant professor of secondary education at the University of Vermont.
A month earlier, Castro had found out she was pregnant and due in September. She was looking forward to moving to Vermont in July and getting married in August to her fiancé, James Galloway.
Baby Adelaide ended up arriving one month early, just days after the wedding.
This article was originally published in Seven Days’ monthly parenting magazine, Kids VT.
This article appears in The Mom & Baby Issue 2021.
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