Jojie Garcia
About the contributor
Jojie Perocho-Garcia has been an educator for 14 years now. She keeps her quarantine days busy with preschool and high school tutorials, reading, watching Kdramas, and being MamaJie to her husband Jeb and kids Alba (4yo) and Rogo (1yo). You may find her on Instagram and Facebook as @teachmomsy where she shares education tips, parenting reflections, and homeschooling highlights.
On the afternoon of April 2, 2019, I got one of the best text messages I’ve ever received in my life.
“Rogo may go home today.”
Rogo (short for Andro Santiago) is my son who was born at 30 weeks on March 5, 2019 and spent the first few weeks of his life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Thankfully, apart from his early arrival, he didn’t present any other complications and was a healthy baby who just needed a little bit more time to grow. Our hospital’s “graduation weight” for preemies was 1.8kg— Rogo, born at 1.5 kg with a lot of ups and downs in between, finally hit the magic number. He was ready to go home.
