"Having seen Layla wired up; in an incubator; us not being able to hold her or touch her, mum still in hospital and that the first 2 days would be touch and go, I left both on the second night around 9.30pm. I got in my car and started to drive home, listening to a CD that I made only days before. One of the songs I had listened to a lot recently was a song by Athlete called Wires, but I hadn't really listened to the lyrics...until I drove home that night. 

 

The song is about a baby who's in Layla's circumstance and of course, I feeling the shock of the past 48 hours and bottled up with so much emotion, just cried my heart out and had to stop the car because I couldn't see through the fountain of tears. I managed to get myself together and eventually made it home deflated from any happiness. Once Layla's mum came home, I explained the song and the story, and got her to listen to it. She too cried, agreeing that it did explain all that we were going through. However, the songs ending has more reference to Layla's health today then it did when she was only 2-3 days old. For me the song simply expresses the yearning one has for their own child and the need to know that they are going to be alright".

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