My five-month-old son was burning with a 104-degree fever when my husband’s mother walked into the emergency room at two in the morning—not to check on her grandson, but to take her exhausted son home. “You’re the mother, Claire. This is your job,” she told me while my baby whimpered against my chest. My husband actually reached for his coat. That was when I stood up and told him that if he walked through those doors, he needed to understand exactly what he was walking away from.
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