My Newborn Caught Whooping Cough in the Pediatrician’s Waiting Room

by Ginny Cunningham No one tells you how extraordinarily brutal whooping cough is on a baby’s body. Episodes started with a small cough that became progressively more violent while my five-week-old daughter’s face turned blue. Then came several seconds of silence while she struggled for breath. That’s when you pray—pray to hear the famous “whoop” when her breath returns. It took thirty-three hours of labor, but we were so thrilled when our daughter, Paige, was born healthy with a beautiful...