{"id":32088,"date":"2025-12-05T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32088"},"modified":"2025-12-05T20:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:17:14","slug":"32088","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32088","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo.\u201d The word cracked out like a whip.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa turned her face away, her eyes fixed on the sterile white wall. Her right hand continued stroking the first baby, but the movements were mechanical now, devoid of warmth. The beep of the heart monitor marked an accelerated rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want that one,\u201d she said coldly. \u201cTake it away.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inpage\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inner\">\n<div id=\"hbagency_space_218532_3\" class=\"hbagency_cls hbagency_space_218532\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The air in the delivery room seemed to solidify into ice. The nurse, a fifty-year-old woman named\u00a0<strong class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Ruthie<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">, dropped the tray of instruments she was carrying. The clatter of metal against the vinyl floor echoed like thunder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Thornton,\u201d I said, taking another step toward the bed. \u201cThis is your son. A birthmark doesn\u2019t change that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32089\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32065 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tap-here.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo.\u201d The word cracked out like a whip. Melissa turned her face away, her eyes fixed on the sterile white wall. Her right hand continued stroking the first baby, but the movements were mechanical now, devoid of warmth. The beep of the heart monitor marked an accelerated rhythm. \u201cI don\u2019t want that one,\u201d she said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32088\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32093,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088\/revisions\/32093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}