A Careless Comment
As a matter of fact, a clueless parent eventually said something to Smith that hurt her a lot. Back then, she was staying with Callie in the NICU before the little girl could go home. There were three pairs of twins in the facility. What triggered the careless comment was one of the newborns bursting into tears.
It Still Hurt
One of the moms saw that Smith only had one child in the NICU. While she did not mean any malice, her words ended up being very painful. Smith shared the experience with the BBC: “A parent who didn’t know what I’d been through turned to me and said, ‘You are so lucky you don’t have twins.’”