Down, but not out
BY ALYSSA MEIER
Editor
When Callie Strasheim was pregnant with her second child, she remembers thinking that the pregnancy felt different.
She remembers thinking back to how she felt when she was pregnant with her firstborn, a boy named Rylan, and being positive that her second child was a girl.
She remembers going into labor, giving birth to a 7-pound, XX-ounce baby boy, and holding him against her chest.
And she remembers nurses taking her baby away.
“They said they were taking him for a bath, but after 20 minutes, he still hadn’t come back,” Callie, who lives in Washburn, said.
Callie said she asked a nurse where her son was, and being told that doctors would be in shortly to talk to her. The nurse, she said, wouldn’t look her in the eye.
When two doctors came into the room shortly after, with a somber look on their faces, Callie thought the worst.
“They had this look like ‘I’m so sorry,’ and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, my baby is dead,” Callie said.
