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Chapter 7

Emergency Baptism

I held him for a moment, and then Bernice took him. Moving swiftly, she placed James on the floor, grabbed her stethoscope, and, with Kim, checked all over his body for a pulse. They couldn’t find one. They listened for a heartbeat. Nothing. They spoke urgently and quietly to one another.

Travis sat back on his heels and watched. Jenny shifted back and forth and asked what she could do to help. Kim tried to seal an oxygen mask on James’s face, but my ten-pound baby was too big for the newborn mask. Babies sometimes take a moment to breathe after being born; because James’s umbilical cord had not yet been cut, there was reasonable hope that he was still receiving oxygen-rich blood, and that all would be well in a moment.