Abstract
My pager buzzed one day when I was a social worker in an urban hospital and there was a message asking me to come to the intensive care unit (ICU). As the elevator door opened there was a familiar medical resident standing in front. His face could best be described as luminous with a wide-eyed stare and a soft smile. He had delivered his first baby and said, “As I delivered him, he opened his eyes and stared into mine. It was all so silent. It just struck me that I was the first human being the baby had ever seen. I was not prepared to realize that!” He was present in that moment and engrossed in that felt memory. Afterward, I continued to another floor and got off at the ICU, imagining what it must feel like to be the first person a new life sees upon delivery into the world.
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