NATHANIEL NEWMAN & HIS MUM, MAGDA ‘I’ve always known I’m different. I like to think I’m strong’
Feb 13, 2020
3 minutes
the time Magda and Russel Newman got to the hospital delivery room on February 7, 2004, Magda had already laboured through the night. Hers had been a healthy pregnancy – at the six-month ultrasound, her doctor noted only that the baby’s “nose looks big” – and the 24-year-old was excited to deliver her first child. Magda recalls Russel, then 35, cheering her on: “You’ve got this! I see the head!” Then came a terrifying silence. Magda saw Russel grab his hair as the delivery team hustled. “Then I saw his profile … Something was very wrong.” She asked her doctor: “Did I deliver an alien?”
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