Joining Forces: The HUG & Operation Special Delivery

A Community Outreach Project

The delivery went great...but, "My baby doesn't seem happy, " the new mom says.

Erica, the OSD doula, meets Tonya at the hospital when labor first begins, and she stays by her side for sixteen long hours. Little William is born full-term and without medication or intervention just as Tonya had hoped! But, now this new mother seems worried. "I can't seem to make my baby happy!" Tonya says.

Erica notices that William gazes up at his mother's face when Tonya talks to the nurse. However, the more Tonya talks directly to her son and rubs his soft, warm head the sleepier and the more "out of it" the new baby gets. Tonya notices that he actually turns away from her and looks toward the door to the hall. "It's like he keeps looking for his Daddy," this young mother says.