u/metrying13

Does anyone know what’s going on with Saint Anne’s Medical Center right now? Are they having staffing issues or management issues or something? Because I was supposed to give birth there but they turned me away due to being over capacity, even though they told me as I was receiving care from them throughout my pregnancy, that they have a much better mother to bed ratio than the surrounding hospitals, and now I’m hearing from other people that other labor and delivery staff are quitting in droves.

Anyone got the inside scoop?

It dawned on me how quickly this is all going. My baby is 7 weeks 1 day old and just like that- we’re closing the newborn chapter of her life. She’ll never be this little, this delicate, this fresh again. Never again will she be just barely unfurling to the world.

Folding herself up just like she was in my womb with her feet crossed and her eyes little slits and her mouth so tiny she can barely fit to breastfeed.

She’s growing out of onesies, moving up in diaper sizes and time is just slipping past.

I started crying and crying about how I won’t have a newborn anymore.

But then I realized, I do have a newborn tonight. And tomorrow night even. And right now my newborn is asleep on my chest.

I am sad because I already miss the moments I’m currently experiencing.

I’ve never felt such bliss, such clarity, such purpose as motherhood. I’m afraid to blink.