The gift we didn’t know we needed

2024-10-23T09:30:00

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Signs & Wonders in everyday life

The gift we didn’t know we needed

Nine years ago, through a haze of exhaustion and in and out of consciousness because of a reaction to the anaesthesia, I remember turning to see our newborn lying a few metres away in the hospital bassinet and asking my husband: “What is wrong with her?” Fifty hours of labour had ended in an emergency c-section, and as the doctor came in moments later and shared that she suspected our newborn had Down’s syndrome (DS), shock compounded. What had we done wrong? 

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