Get the Baby to the Doctor

Get the Baby to the Doctor

Briefly

I had a baby, a crumbling relationship and not one friend in the city we had moved to three weeks earlier, other than the partner I was losing.

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And so I believed it fully that if I could navigate my way across a baffling city on zero sleep and deliver my child promptly and intact to the pediatrician's office for a routine checkup, it would prove I was a good mother.

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I felt a burst of rage. As though the city itself had played this trick on me.

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