“What do you mean, look at her back?” Hannah demanded.

She moved toward me but stopped when a nurse entered, alerted by the raised voices.

Nurse Megan took one look at the baby’s position and asked me to keep her supported while she called the pediatric team.

There was a small raised area low on the baby’s back.

It looked different from the pictures of ordinary newborn marks I had seen in the pregnancy books.

But none of us knew what it meant.