Hope for Mamas with Sick Babies
Ding ding, ding ding, ding ding went the machines in the hospital tracking my baby’s oxygen saturation. They had been stable and in a healthy range all afternoon. I was starting to feel hope that we could go home the next morning. But then night came. His oxygen levels kept dipping too low and struggling to come back up. I paced back and forth anxiously watching the numbers, the exhaustion from several days in the hospital weighing on me. The nurse came in and increased his oxygen support. I felt gutted. Not only would we not be going home the...