‘UR EXIT from St. Paul's Hospital .

could hardly

have been more

: dramatic. The desk clerk was picking |
‘up: “the phone after. threatening to call the
security guard to throw me out’ because of my
insistence that my, three-year-old son Eden
should be allowed to. visit his mother as we’
had been told he would be able to. Mean-
while, my tearful wife Jenny was declaring she
was discharging herself then and there.

Thankfally,, two | friends
had come to_visit Jenny and
our newborn | son, Brecon,
and ‘were able to take Eden,
-. down to the main floor while .
he .sobbed bitterly, still.
_ unable to understand why he
was the only one not. allowed -

in to visit his new baby
brother. .

Jenny went and fetched
the baby that had been born

to her there the previous day |
-and packed her case. She
signed a discharge form and

we loft, the’ hospital. Tt felt

sunday

like.a. breakout . to freedom
from a penal institution.

'

Even . -how, after . the
repercussions that plagued
us for the next, 10 days, we
do not’ regret the action we
took but rather the. cir-
cumstances that made it

necessary. .¢

We felt 9 we had done our.

part. As the doctor com-
mented afterwards, Jenny
had gone through the birth
with flying colors. It struck
us as ironica a e told
her “You we| "1 redit
to me,” sincs we t feel
he had beef a credit to us in
any w rriving as he did,
just in.time to see the baby

born. The -birth had been
just

the opposite of

everything we had
previously arranged with
-him.

In our attempts to repeat
the -joyful experience that.
the birth of our first son had
been, we had sought out a
doctor who shared our
enthusiasm. for natural
childbirth...

She was to have delivered
our baby at Grace Hospital, |
where the policy in. cases
where ac was visiting. a’ aan SNEENTpSNPEN AT Nr LLART!
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bring the baby to the bedside 7
so the visiting child was not_ 1 25 Charles Str eet | z
left peeting through the North Vancouver

nursery window at a sea of 929-6996
babies.

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