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This is OnPoint. I'm Megna Takrabardi.

Usually, when a baby first enters the world,

there's that life-affirming sound of the baby's cry,

and the joyous response from parents, family, medical caregivers in the room.

But that's not what happened when Megan Nix gave birth to her daughter Anna in 2015.

And Megan, in your book Remedies for Sorrow,

you write that something was really different with Anna from the moment she was born.

Can you describe the moment of her birth?

She was born at dawn,

and so the room was really dimly lit when I gave birth to her.

And when the midwife held her up above my body,

she was completely silent.

And she had dark eyes and dark hair,

and just stared straight into me.

I could tell that she was alive, but she didn't make any sound at all.

And we looked at each other in this suspension of sound

until the midwife placed her over my chest,

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