My baby boy was used to sleeping with me in bed at home but this went against their policy at the unit. He slept in a sleepyhead so I put him on my bed and went to sleep. The room had a faint green glow that emitted from the fire safety alarm on the ceiling.
I somehow managed to get to sleep as I was completely emotionally exhausted. In the middle of the night I was in a deep sleep when all of a sudden I hear my voice being said and someone touch me. As I open my eyes I see two figures looming over me in the glow of the green light. I forget where I am and think I’m being abducted. I scream my lungs out and flap my arms as I try to fight them away. I wake the other patients in the unit and these two figures jump back. They reassure me they are the nurses and tell me to put baby boy into his cot. As they walk out of the room one of them says I scared the shit out of her…