title: Baby Lost: From the Diary of a Neonatal Nurse
author:  Leilani Ruland 
description: The large Midwestern children's hospital never sleeps, kept constantly awake with the glare of the lights and the beep of the monitors. Follow Annie Barker, RN, as she contemplates her future and is confronted by her past. As she reports for duty this Fourth of July, from experience, she will accept the unexpected as routine. Equipment may break, and there will certainly be the breaking of hearts. In this 'theater' where the lights never dim, the staff will perform their balancing act of extending life and prolonging suffering, as their personal lives intersect with - the often short - lives of their patients. Today, Annie will truly come face to face with the domino effect of a baby lost.
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  Nurse Rilla Winters is shocked to learn the new E.R. director at Brisbane General is her husband! It' s been
  seven years since they drifted apart after her miscarriage, but the reappearance of Luca Romano, in all his
  dark-haired, flashing-eyed Italian glory, throws her emotions into confusion.
  From the moment he sees Rilla again, Luca knows she is the only woman for him. With emotions riding high,
  they spend one very special night together and Rilla becomes pregnant…again.
  Luca knows that this tiny new life is a symbol of hope. Maybe he and Rilla actually can become a family by
  Christmas.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Rilla murmured something, and rocked her head from side to
  side, but didn’t waken.
   
  Luca sighed and hunkered down beside her. He lifted a hand to
  shake her shoulder, but was caught by the protective way her fingers
  were splayed down low on her belly.
   
  His baby lay beneath that hand. Their baby. He shook his head at
  the wonder of it all and gave in to the urge to lie down bes