Investigation: One bruise and they took the baby away
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
If one day, you saw your newborn baby with a little bruise you couldn't explain, what would you do? Many people like Holly Kobayashi would ask a professional for advice and reassurance. Instead Holly set in motion a process which led to her son being taken away and a four-month long fight to win him back and prove that she could care for him.
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Guests:
-Emily Dugan, Social affairs correspondent for The Sunday Times.
-Holly Kobayashi, mother of Adventure.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:30.0 | Just a warning before we begin. This episode is about a mother being |
| 0:37.8 | separated from her baby and maybe particularly upsetting for some listeners. |
| 0:42.1 | If one day you saw your tiny newborn baby had little bruise you couldn't |
| 0:53.7 | explain what would you do? Many people like Holly Kobayashi would ask a |
| 1:00.4 | professional for advice but in her case that's when her life began to unravel. |
| 1:05.8 | Usually if I sort of get a flashback or a nightmare it's that moment |
| 1:10.3 | around to walk away from the end. More and more babies are being put into care in |
| 1:15.9 | the first week of their lives. Sometimes for something as small as an |
| 1:21.8 | unexplained bruise. Can that be right? There's a feeling that you take as few |
| 1:27.5 | risks as possible and that's a very understandable reaction but what it does |
| 1:30.8 | mean is that there will be people that are the collateral in that attitude. |
| 1:34.7 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:38.9 | I'm Manvian Rana today. An investigation. One bruise and they took the baby away. |
| 1:51.8 | How did you find out you were pregnant? I felt like I knew I was pregnant. I could |
| 2:03.1 | feel it in my boobs and I think I did a lot of tests that week because I knew |
| 2:08.9 | that I was pregnant. I kept the test kept saying I wasn't an |
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