March 2024
Kyah
Flores
,
RN
LDRP
Baystate Medical Center
Springfield
,
MA
United States
She saw I was tired and broken in every sense of the way, so she dropped everything she was doing to come and hug me while my husband was cutting the cord.
I would like to nominate Nurse Kyah due to the incredible kindness and care she took of me during the delivery of my 28-week-old stillborn baby boy. When I arrived at the hospital to check on his health, we found out he had passed and that I had to deliver him that day. Nurse Kyah received me and my husband with so much softness and helped me prepare for the most difficult moment of my life as if I was part of her family, she was so understanding of what I was facing and made sure I felt taken care of. When the time came to push, our midwife and husband were on the receiving end waiting for my baby boy, and Kyah was helping to clean as everything went down. During the last push though, she saw I was tired and broken in every sense of the way, so she dropped everything she was doing to come and hug me while my husband was cutting the cord. That hug of support has been ingrained in my brain since. I don’t think she knows how much I needed that in that moment. I know our angel boy put her there for a reason and knows how grateful I am that nurses like her exist.