As parents are in a very vulnerable situation in the neonatal unit progressing on an often long, unpredictable and complicated journey, special approach and tools are needed to distill their overwhelming experience.
What if Kate worked those long unpredictable hours as a doctor, like thousands of working mothers, or as a human rights lawyer like Bridget Jones's suitor?
Around the globe, female politicians struggle with preconceived ideas of how women should speak and behave; they struggle, too, to reconcile motherhood with long, unpredictable hours and a career that rarely allows for maternity leave.
For many supporters, it was the happy end of a long and unpredictable road.
There were injuries on both sides and multiple arrests amid the clashes, with police and protesters seemingly braced for a long and unpredictable confrontation.
Information about what is happening in an economy is approximate and always out of date; and changes in taxes and spending often take a long and unpredictable amount of time to take effect.
From the perspective of some of the Somalis in Uganda, veterans of refugee life, the attacks are another setback in a long and unpredictable line of interviews, security checks and bulletin-board announcements.
But administration officials sounded confident that they had gotten enough of what is needed, for what will probably be a long and unpredictable war against Mr. bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network and his Taliban patrons.
But after that he knew he would be faced with the prospect of year-to-year renewals while he waited in a long and unpredictable line for permanent residency — and remained tethered to whatever company was sponsoring him for a green card.
A week and a half after the attack in San Bernardino, there was a sense that it would take more this time, that the nation has entered a long and unpredictable slog against terror that will not solve itself as swiftly as homes can be rebuilt.
