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Jack carried the car seat awkwardly into the hospital, wondering how on earth he was going to manage to lift it or manoeuvre it with the additional weight of a baby. He guessed one benefit was that she didn’t weigh very much at the moment, although he knew from experience how quickly that changed.
The doctors had made it clear they should watch her weight very carefully. Although she’d thrived in the neonatal intensive care unit and they’d finally got the all-clear to take her home, the outside world was a different thing entirely, and the change of environment could cause untold stresses to such a small, delicate body.
All in all, it would be a good day. The news that they were being discharged came just moments after Clive Blake had pleaded guilty at the dock. Sentencing was still
