I Had Barely Finished Holding My Son’s Newborn Baby When a Nurse Pulled Me Aside and Whispered, “That Isn’t the Child He Left With”

At 6:14 a.m., Lily and Leo were delivered by emergency cesarean.

At 7:51, Lily died.

Leo remained alive but critically unstable.

At 8:32, at another campus twenty minutes away, Marissa delivered Oliver.

Healthy.

Full term.

Crying.

Julian remained with Chloe and the twins.