As if being a mother to a newborn and a toddler wasn’t challenging enough, with the sleep deprivation and surging hormones, imagine the extra stress if you felt something wasn’t quite right with your brand new baby. And even though you express concern to hospital staff – and are reassured that all is well – your intuition tells you otherwise.
That was exactly what led Port Macquarie mum Naomi to rush her one-week-old daughter Caprice to the emergency department days after being discharged from hospital, and was the catalyst for Caprice’s diagnosis of meningitis – an early detection that saved her life.
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