I was the nurse caring for a couple's newborn first
child, a son, after his cesarean birth. Since the mother was asleep under
general anesthesia, we took our tiny charge directly to the newborn nursery to
introduce him to his daddy.
While cuddling his son for the first time, he noticed the
baby's ears conspicuously standing out from his head. He expressed his
concern that some kids might call his son names like "Dumbo."
The pediatrician reassured the new dad that his son was
healthy and the ears could be easily corrected during childhood. The
father still worried about his wife's reaction to those large protruding
ears. "She doesn't take things as easily as I do," he worried.
By this time, the new mother was ready to meet her
precious son. I placed the tiny bundle in his mother's arms and eased the
blanket back so that she could gaze upon her child for the first time.
She took one look at her baby's face and looked to her
husband and gasped, "Oh, Honey! Look! He has your ears!"
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