In Jan. 2020, Teresa Hernandez was 35 weeks pregnant. One morning, she had a strange1 —the baby wasn't moving as it usually did. She decided to go to the hospital to 2 everything was OK.
When she got there, she learned that the baby's heart rate was 3 . The doctors told her that her baby needed to be delivered4 by an operation. Hearing that, Hernandez was in complete5 . After all, the baby was too little. But the doctors said if the baby was 6 , they wouldn't be able to help if something went wrong.
Hernandez was7 to the operating room. On the way, she suffered from great8 . She started to cry and have trouble breathing, and she knew she was having a 9 attack. That's when a nurse in the operating room 10 to help.
"This nurse, she took my hand and started pressing with11 . And then she 12 me while they were doing the operation. And then she 13 one hand on my cheek. And she started humming," Hernandez 14 ."I felt like my mom was there, holding me."
15 her husband, Hernandez had no family with her. But the nurse's act of warmth brought her 16 . It felt like her mom 17 her in the hospital.
"When your mom is there, you feel18 . You feel like you can do it. You feel like everything is going to be 19 . And that's what I felt with her," Hernandez said. "I'm really, really20 for what she did that day for me."
