A mother recounts the terrifying moment when her newborn baby went missing from her hospital room.
n September 2014, I gave birth to my third daughter, Nadine, in Auckland, New Zealand. It had been a dramatic delivery. Three epidurals had left me with a stiff neck and an excruciating headache. So a few days after her birth, I was back for tests, bringing her along with me as she needed feeding.
As the nurse called for security, I fell on my hands and knees, and frantically searched the floor, thinking maybe she had fallen out of her cot and rolled away. That’s when the awful realisation hit me: someone had taken my baby. I felt trapped in a waking nightmare. I’d never felt fear like it. But I didn’t cry until Conrad ran in 20 minutes later. Then I broke down. Why hadn’t I taken Nadine to the bathroom with me? The guilt was awful.
As the police left to investigate, we could only wait and pray. Every so often an officer would return to see us, but they didn’t have any more news. I replayed the second I’d walked away from Nadine’s cot over and over. Why hadn’t I taken her into the bathroom with me? I thought about Vanja and Isabella, who were being looked after by a relative. How could any of us live without their sister? At about 2am, a nurse gave me tablets to help me sleep.
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