They left their two-month-old with me while they went shopping. But his desperate crying wouldn’t stop. I checked his diaper and what I found made my hands tremble. I grabbed him and rushed to the hospital.

“There’s swelling… and redness… around his lower abdomen. It looked painful. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

The doctor’s expression sharpened.

He nodded once and immediately began examining the baby more closely.

“Let’s get an ultrasound ready,” he said to the nurse. “Now.”

The room shifted into urgency.