“Do you understand that your baby goes away and never comes back?”

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Nurses traded horror stories involving tearful and confused new mothers, who asked whether they were allowed to hold or feed their babies. On July 29, 2014, Maryann and Dexter Koshiba, 32 and 37 years old, sat, utterly exhausted, in a recovery room at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. That morning, Maryann had given birth to a baby girl, …