Fighting for our baby’s every breath, we gained just as much as we gave
We rushed to the hospital, but the medical staff did not seem overly concerned.
“The baby is moving,” one nurse assured Leah. “You just don’t feel it.”
But when they did an ultrasound, they could not detect any movement, and they immediately performed an emergency C-section.
That our daughter was born alive was already a miracle. But having suffered oxygen deprivation, she could not breathe on her own, and she was not moving at all. The doctors quickly intubated her and whisked her to the NICU. Thankfully, it was Shabbos, so Leah and I had time to digest the situation a bit before we had to inform anyone of our daughter’s birth — and her prognosis.
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