I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

to her chest. I held my own breath so I could hear anything, the faintest beat, any flutter of movement inside that tiny rib cage.

Silence.

My mind did two things at once: it went completely blank and it flooded. I laid her down on the carpet and put two fingers against her sternum and began compressions, the way they had taught us in the newborn care continue reading …