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Weekly Contest #234
Your eyes closed, The distant smell of your newborn’s head returning. His dark hair caked his head, blood and fluids from having just been birthed covered him. He didn't cry or scream. He wasn’t breathing for a while. You remember the nurses ripping him out of your arms, bringing him to a table that felt like it was miles away, putting an oxygen mask on his tiny face. You had never been so scared. Never. Next, an operating room. You had complications with a natural birth, not going as smoothly as your first. Too much bleeding may...
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