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My Newborn Daughter Wouldn't Stop Screaming by Kyle Harrison

My Newborn Daughter Wouldn't Stop Screaming by Kyle Harrison

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My Newborn Daughter Wouldn't Stop Screaming by Kyle Harrison

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My Newborn Daughter Wouldn't Stop Screaming by Kyle Harrison

My Newborn Daughter Wouldn't Stop Screaming by Kyle Harrison

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2nd. April

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2nd changed my life forever. Rita

0:38

May was born at approximately 607 in the

0:40

morning, and my wife and I brought her

0:42

home for the next day. No

0:45

one ever tells you how much a baby changes your life. It's

0:48

it's one of those experiences that's hard to really

0:50

put down in words. I'm

0:53

here to tell you it's straight. All right. There

0:56

won't be any sugarcoating here. Being

0:59

a parent is a full time job, and a lot

1:01

of times it feels like you want to pull your

1:03

hair out. But don't get

1:05

me wrong, we immediately fell in love with Rita for the

1:07

first two weeks. As a matter of fact, you could say

1:09

that she was a perfect little

1:12

angel. I mean, in fact, I'd never even seen

1:14

a baby act so good. My

1:16

wife, Stephanie, was overjoyed

1:18

with being able to breastfeed, getting Rita

1:20

into a sleeping routine, even having a

1:22

little time for herself since Rita was

1:24

accommodating to her bassinet so well

1:27

right off the bat. Those

1:30

early days would make any parent immediately think

1:32

about having another kid, even if they were

1:34

all so amazing and all so well behaved

1:37

like our newborn was. But

1:41

something changed at

1:44

the two week mark. I

1:48

wish I could say for sure it was. I

1:51

had to work that day and Steph took our

1:53

little girl to the doctor for her first round of

1:55

vaccinations. A routine appointment that

1:57

every child has to endure. expect

2:00

some fussiness after the shots were given, the doctor

2:02

also advised us to make sure that

2:04

she was fed regularly and not dehydrated.

2:07

According to them, sleepiness was a side effect

2:09

of the medicine, so after the screaming died

2:12

down Rita would get drowsy and we

2:14

would go back to the same old routine as before.

2:18

But uh... The

2:22

problem is that... That

2:26

never happened. On

2:30

my lunch break, I called Steph to see how our little

2:32

princess was doing, only to hear a loud shriek that

2:34

made my eardrums want to burn. I'll

2:37

call you later! I shouted as I hung up

2:39

and frowned, wondering how long our newborn had been

2:41

upset. I assumed it was just

2:43

a simple crying spell, it would be over by the time I

2:45

got home. Instead

2:49

that afternoon as I walked in, I heard Rita

2:51

squealing and Steph was pacing the kitchen trying to

2:53

burp her. Hey

2:55

there's my little angel, how's daddy's girl I

2:57

could? Steph shot me a dirty

3:00

look and offered the squealing infant to me. I

3:02

don't know what's wrong with her, I've tried everything,

3:04

bottles, blankets, baths, you name it. I

3:07

tried it, she admitted as she tried to

3:09

hold back tears. I think she's

3:11

clearly distressed and earlier when I tried to

3:13

breastfeed, she bit me so hard that it

3:15

grew blood. Rita

3:17

continued to squeal as I rocked her and looked

3:19

at our baby girl in concern. I

3:22

think we should go to the emergency room? Should

3:24

we call the doctor? I asked. Steph

3:27

nodded as she paced the refrigerator.

3:30

Pediatrician has got a free opening on Thursday, but

3:33

that's days away. Maybe we should

3:35

go to the ER? Spend

3:37

hours now and it's non-stop. I

3:40

think that lab tech did something, I don't know.

3:45

I didn't know what to do either. We don't

3:47

live close to a hospital, I knew the drive would be taxing,

3:49

especially because I was supposed to go to work the next

3:51

day. No one gives you an instruction

3:54

manual for this sort of stuff. Okay,

3:56

let's go ahead and go. I mean, it's better to be

3:58

safe than sorry, I told my wife. We

4:00

were up the car and put our new

4:02

born in the rear facing car seat. All

4:04

Aussie continue to try and scream. Anxiety

4:06

levels spiking as we drove down the road.

4:09

Stuff that back there with. They're trying to comfort

4:11

her but I soon saw first hand. Nothing

4:14

seemed to be working. My.

4:17

Mind began to races I wonder what to

4:19

possibly be the matter, what a stuff was

4:21

right and Texan. Punctured a

4:24

nervous. As our daughter. Gonna be

4:26

alright. As soon

4:28

as he got to the emergency room

4:30

I fully expect to the readers Wales

4:32

would guess again. Immediately reality set in

4:34

when we were given paperwork to fill

4:36

out and paste the waiting room alongside

4:38

everyone else who sat down I tried

4:40

my best to folks from a questionnaire

4:42

but the more read a cried and

4:44

screamed the irritable I became how much

4:46

Herb but with the hospital staff really

4:48

seem to take no interest in are

4:50

suffering letting other clearly less urgent cases

4:52

into the three hours. Maybe

4:55

we should try to customers me. There's

4:58

a small neighborhood urgent care down the

5:00

road. I told stuff the only accept

5:02

asked don't have that kind of money.

5:05

I worried that we were bound to be of

5:07

a hospital all night, so I got up and

5:09

called my boss, told him I wouldn't be coming

5:11

in the next morning. I. Wasn't

5:13

happy about that, but. He

5:16

claimed that he understood. Family comes first.

5:19

All. While I was doing this I kept hearing

5:21

return wondering if Susie be touching her breath. But

5:24

it was insane I thought As I

5:26

walked back and looked at staff apologetically

5:28

the he are was at a standstill.

5:30

No one to tell me for sure

5:32

where we would even be seen. It

5:34

was pisses me off. My little girl

5:36

was excruciating pain and these asshole didn't

5:38

seem to care. I marched up to

5:40

the glass banging to get their attention.

5:43

John, this isn't going to help. Settled in

5:45

and really, I wasn't listening. We've been waiting

5:47

for hours are still hadn't even gotten to

5:49

a bed. We should have been sent straight

5:51

up to labor and delivery. What? What's the

5:54

holdup I demanded Sir, You need to take

5:56

a seat. I understand your concerns, but right

5:58

now, labor and. Delivery. Can't accommodate

6:00

anyone. There's nothing we can do. When.

6:03

Or said but. But

6:05

it wasn't a harsh tone. Something about the

6:07

tones of me off my started to raise

6:09

my voice. don't be condescending with me, our

6:12

baby eats is in pain and you're just

6:14

telling me that. To shrug it off she

6:16

got on a radio and muffled something which

6:18

only made me more upset. Hold on to

6:20

call security on me with you. I'm mad

6:22

that you haven't lifted a finger to help

6:24

my baby. A moment later

6:26

and hops or twice my size entered the room

6:28

staff grab my shoulder giving me a look at

6:31

the we should just go see some of. The

6:34

looked over at a reader who is continuing

6:36

to squeal and looks like she couldn't even

6:38

breathe properly. My. Heart breaking

6:41

as I realize the hospitals close to

6:43

throwing out. If

6:45

you don't take a seat and cooperate and freedom and have

6:47

to ask you to leave. The guard ones. That.

6:50

Had enough. I'd rather stuff and

6:53

I marched out. part of me so

6:55

foolish. We're no closer to figuring out

6:57

why reader was upset and I was.

6:59

Higher ceiling and times wasted. On

7:02

the drive home stuff gave me the stink eye but

7:04

agree that we had season ago the wrong time. There's

7:07

an urgent care pediatrics but it won't be

7:10

open until the morning. she said second, your

7:12

phone was better than nothing Much as I

7:14

hate the prospect of living our baby scream

7:16

all night. Wasn't for which

7:18

was we had. When

7:21

we got home we took shifts taking care of

7:24

are trying to make sure his aides or had

7:26

a diaper change. Read. A

7:28

Never Stop Mailings. Oh. Sure,

7:30

she was excruciating distrusts through doing nothing

7:32

to make it better. Our. Ancestors through

7:34

the roof, I told my wife to get a

7:36

bit asleep she could and I did read it

7:38

to the guest room. The. Walls were

7:40

sicker in there so I guess is when I

7:42

was brought her in here to cry the other

7:45

to get some much needed shut eye staff admitted

7:47

sleep was going to be difficult. Even

7:49

without hearing her infant, her motherly instinct to go

7:51

over and she was checking up on us almost

7:53

every half hour. i'm

7:56

handling her seeking get some sleep with

7:59

older as again to rock Rita.

8:01

Her face was bright red by now, and I couldn't

8:03

even imagine how she had managed to scream all day.

8:06

My mind told me that this had to be impossible. I

8:09

mean, if she was

8:12

that deprived of oxygen, she

8:14

would have passed out. There would have been moments where she

8:16

caught her breath, but I simply wasn't

8:19

noticing it. It

8:21

couldn't possibly be this bad. I didn't

8:24

want to imagine it permanently harming her, but

8:26

with each passing moment at home, that

8:28

dreaded thought lingered in my mind, especially

8:31

as I looked at her and saw her veins

8:33

popping near her neck and forehead. I mean,

8:37

what if this caused permanent brain damage or worse?

8:41

Deep breath, I thought frantically, and

8:43

yet here I was sitting in the dark, unable to do

8:45

a single thing to help her. As

8:48

I rocked her, her piercing squeals

8:50

heightened my anxiety with each passing second.

8:53

My fear was compounded by searching for

8:55

similar cases online. Many

8:57

of the things people claimed happened to their

9:00

newborn were terrifying. Nightmare-inducing

9:02

images of babies bleeding mouths

9:04

and ears filled my screen.

9:06

It was enough to

9:08

make my stomach turn end over end. I mean,

9:10

this couldn't possibly be happening to my Rita. When

9:13

Steph took over to let me rest, my head was

9:15

filled with frightening thoughts of what could be happening. Yet

9:18

somehow, we made it through the night. That

9:20

in sheer exhaustion finally took us past our

9:23

breaking point. In

9:25

the morning, Rita was still in pain, her

9:27

throat dried from her screams, her little body

9:29

wailing. Steph was trying

9:31

her best to keep it together as we hurried and got

9:33

in the car again. We were holding

9:35

out hope that the pediatric urgent care would have the

9:38

answers we needed, but

9:40

it wound up a dead end.

9:43

They did a cursory check of Rita, including

9:45

her lungs and checking her for infections,

9:47

but after running tests, they

9:50

surprised us and said there was nothing noticeably

9:53

wrong with her. No

9:55

fever, no broken bones, no

9:57

signs of trauma. If you ask me, this is

9:59

a This is just a short phase that your baby's

10:01

going through. She took fluids like normal, so there's

10:03

really no need to worry. You'll

10:06

simply have to endure it." My

10:09

wife looked like she was about to snap. They

10:11

simply didn't believe us, she said, when

10:14

we left. No baby could scream

10:16

that long or be unable to sleep. So

10:19

because our story was so unfathomable, they sent

10:22

us on our merry way, thinking we were

10:24

just a pair of typical, overly concerned parents.

10:28

I was at a loss. We've

10:30

gone to the doctor's and finally gotten tests

10:32

done, but nothing. Nothing explained

10:34

what was happening to her. Think

10:37

of this as waiting for a butterfly to emerge from a

10:40

cocoon. The transformation itself can be

10:42

a little ugly, the nurse said, as

10:44

we walked out of the urgent care office. I

10:47

didn't even bother saying thank you. I

10:50

mean, in my mind, they've done absolutely nothing to

10:52

help us. I

10:54

don't think I can handle much more of this,

10:56

Steph lamented, as we got home and tried to

10:58

settle Rita again with every trick in the book.

11:01

Her screams only seemed to get worse. She

11:04

kept clawing and scratching, hitting and wailing.

11:07

It was clear she was desperate for our help.

11:10

I knew that I wasn't as competent as a doctor,

11:12

so I wasn't about to challenge

11:14

their diagnosis, but instead I did the only thing I

11:16

could think of and I told my job

11:18

I'd try to come in the next day. I mean,

11:20

I had to get my mind off this. Steph

11:23

wasn't too happy when I gave her that news.

11:26

You're just going to heath me here alone so

11:28

you can get away from her, she snapped.

11:31

I wasn't in the mood to argue. Rita

11:33

was driving us up the wall with her

11:35

painful cries, and we were turning on each other. I

11:38

apologized and I left not long after that, promising I

11:40

would check in to see if Rita had finally

11:43

settled. We

11:45

have to trust the doctors know what they're talking about. If

11:49

something's wrong, they would know, I

11:51

told her. He

11:53

didn't even do an internal scan. What

11:55

if something's inside her and hurting her? Steph

11:57

said desperately. They did all the

11:59

tests. they felt were necessary, I told her. I had

12:02

my doubts, too. Something was wrong with our daughter.

12:04

That much was clear. The

12:07

only thing I could think of was the

12:09

recent checkup. So

12:12

when I went to work and had a bit

12:14

of free time, I called the clinic to find out precisely

12:16

what they had given to Rita that day. "'Oh,

12:20

little Rita May, how is she?' the nurse asked

12:22

cheerfully over the phone. I didn't

12:24

bother trying to convince them of any issues and repeated

12:26

my inquiry. Just typical shots she'd give

12:28

to every newborn at that stage. I must

12:30

say I meant to call and ask how your wife was handling

12:33

it. She couldn't

12:35

even bear to watch when we administered the

12:37

needle. I picked up

12:39

on the choice words and asked the nurse to explain.

12:42

"'Oh, what I mean to say is that she

12:44

stepped out of the room when we gave the vaccine.

12:46

I mean, it's actually pretty common, I guess. No

12:48

one wants to see their baby in that sort of pain.' I

12:52

thanked the nurse, turning not to

12:54

panic as my mind wondered why

12:56

this felt significant. Stephanie

12:59

had left the room. I

13:02

mean, what if they'd done something

13:04

to Rita that wasn't on record? Another

13:06

dark thought crossed my mind as I drove

13:08

home. What if

13:10

one of the nurses had discreetly swapped out

13:13

Rita with another newborn in the clinic? I

13:16

mean, it was the type of scenario that no parent wanted to

13:18

ever fathom, but it could

13:20

fit all the behavioral issues we've seen and had

13:24

be foolishly been doting on a baby we

13:26

didn't know, an infant that

13:28

was screaming frantically to be returned

13:30

to their own family, with our Rita

13:32

out there somewhere, right now trying desperately

13:35

to let whoever had taken her know

13:37

about this terrible mistake. As

13:40

I pulled into the driveway, I couldn't help but took

13:43

a long breath. I

13:46

was letting my imagination run wild. There was no

13:48

reason to suspect something so nightmarish

13:51

had happened. I

13:54

Just need to be here and support my wife, and we'll get

13:56

through this, I told myself as I walked inside of the house.

14:00

To my surprise it as I unlocked the door

14:02

I see was greeted with silence. The

14:06

small duplex we rented was dark and

14:08

I sighed and release surely this was

14:10

a good sign. Read had finally settled

14:12

down. I drop my

14:14

keys in I walk to the nursery, flip it on

14:16

the lights eager to see are sleeping little princess. And

14:21

said. Instead,

14:24

I was. Greeted.

14:26

With a manifestation of all my seers

14:28

combined. A

14:33

blood soaked mattress, A

14:36

stood there staring at it in disbelief

14:38

and then towards the floor for I

14:40

saw what looked like a tiny trail

14:42

of mucus and blood zigzagging towards the

14:44

door. A small crib she'd been lying

14:46

in was all torn apart. Assistance Useless.

14:50

I turn and call out my wife but there

14:52

was no response. My heart pounded of I followed

14:54

the trail of blood and guts to our bedroom.

14:57

Soft. Gleam of my phone like revealing more

14:59

gore exists or us on display in our king

15:01

sized bed. My heart sank of i turn on

15:03

the light and saw. Stuff.

15:11

Lying there. In.

15:14

Her own blonde and legs

15:16

off. As

15:21

I saw wouldn't happen. Or

15:25

newborn. A of whatever

15:27

and replacement for some requested swayed side of

15:30

my wife's body again. The

15:32

sheer amount of tissue and blood the covered the bed

15:34

told his stuff and done her best to fight off

15:36

this monster. But the results. Results

15:39

have been a losing battle. As

15:41

was decomposing staring wide eyed and

15:44

so was up at the sky

15:46

as the creature riddled and her

15:48

family torn in every direction I

15:50

saw the creature pulsing and heart

15:53

side of my life. i

15:56

screamed and backed away from the horrific scene

15:58

call nine one one is I bailed out

16:00

of the door and struggled to catch my breath. I

16:03

was hardly making sense to the operator, but I gave them

16:05

my address and they said that they'd be there in thirty

16:07

minutes. Somewhere

16:09

in the span of time the miniature

16:11

demon that had crawled its way into

16:13

our lives and fooled us into believing

16:16

it was my sweet Rita May vanished

16:20

into the night. When

16:23

the text got there, all

16:26

they found was what little was left

16:28

of my life. It's

16:30

like someone shoved its way inside her body, he ate

16:32

her from the inside out, one of the technicians said

16:35

in disbelief. He was

16:37

a small comfort, but they told me there were signs of

16:39

a struggle. Steph.

16:42

Steph had tried to fight

16:46

back. The creature must have been waiting until

16:48

we were so exhausted that we

16:51

couldn't put up a fight. I've

16:54

realized sourly as I

16:57

thank them for coming. They

17:01

told me the police want to question me. Typical

17:04

procedure. One thing

17:06

swirls around in my mind as I try to make

17:08

sense of what little sanity I have left. Where's

17:12

my daughter? What

17:16

happened to her? I

17:20

fear I may never know and I

17:23

belabeled monster myself. Who

17:27

would believe this shocking story? If

17:31

a distant air emits the shadows I hear a

17:33

newborn baby wail, is

17:36

that my Rita? Or

17:39

is the creature beckoning me to my own demise?

17:45

I sat here on the porch for

17:48

an hour waiting

17:51

for the police and

17:53

I heard the infant in the woods calling out to me. I

17:58

don't know. What of like out

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18:05

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