{"id":5265,"date":"2026-03-22T00:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:46:57","slug":"the-nurse-who-never-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=5265","title":{"rendered":"The Nurse Who Never Came"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"0\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"2ad9cabc-a127-48b9-b682-2d70b1898a01\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-3\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"30\" data-end=\"293\">Seventeen years ago, after having my first baby, I lay in the hospital with her beside me, completely in awe. That first night, a nurse came in and offered to take my baby to the nursery so I could rest. I refused\u2014I just wanted to keep her close and stare at her.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"295\" data-end=\"386\">The next night, exhausted, I asked another nurse if she could take my baby for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"388\" data-end=\"398\">She froze.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"400\" data-end=\"533\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Then she said, \u201cYour baby is supposed to stay with you. We don\u2019t have a nursery\u2026 and no one would ever come take your baby from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-3 w-full empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"text-center\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-flex border border-gray-100 dark:border-gray-700 rounded-xl\">\n<div class=\"bg-token-main-surface-tertiary w-px flex-1 self-stretch\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen years ago, after having my first baby, I lay in the hospital with her beside me, completely in awe. That first night, a nurse came in and offered to take my baby to the nursery so I could rest. I refused\u2014I just wanted to keep her close and stare at her. The next night, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5267,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions\/5267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}