Surviving Infant Hospitalization
December 22, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Labor & Delivery, Mental Health
Jaundice. A year ago, three days before Christmas, it put my little baby in hospital when she was just six days old. I stayed with her, confined to a hard chair beside her cot in the infant ward.
I had a slight fever, a headache, my stitched together nether regions hurt in their special way, I was worried about a number of infections, my breasts were swollen and, before the doctor’s office called with the blood test results, I had planned to do a few holiday preparations and then spend the rest of the day in bed.
The phone call changed everything. …read more
