In September 2014, I had my third daughter, Nadine. It had been a ____1____ birth, which had left me with a terrible headache. So a few days later, I was back for ____2____, bringing her along with me as she needed ____3____.
It was the ____4____ place I wanted to be. I was so tired ____5____ I didn’t want to let Nadine out of my arms. But I was ____6____ for a shower. The hospital had given me a room with a ____7____, but I hesitated before I went in, ____8____ Nadine sleeping in her cot (婴儿床) after eating. Should I bring her in with me? I decided not to. She ____9____ safe, and I’d only be a few feet away.
When I walked back into the room, a nurse was there. We ____10____ looked at Nadine’s cot. It was ____11____. “Did you pick her up?” I asked. “No,” she replied. Instantly, I couldn’t ____12____. It felt like ice-cold water had been ____13____ me.
I ran in the hospital, shouting for ____14____. A nurse led me back to my room. I replayed the ____15____ I’d walked away from Nadine’s cot over and over. Why hadn’t I taken her into the bathroom with me? I’d never felt ____16____ like it. But I didn’t cry until my husband Conrad ran in 20 minutes later. Then I ____17____.
Then the police checked the camera and told us about a woman in dark glasses with a ____18____ in her arms. She had been taken outside the hospital. We waited and waited, until around 2 a.m., a police officer arrived, ____19____ Nadine in a cot. ____20____ I held her, Conrad put his arms around us. We cried. The world felt right again.
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