Nurse celebrating Mother’s Day with her newborn thanks to colleagues’ care
Leah Holder smiles while swinging with her daughter Mercy James at Sea Isle Park on April 21. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Nurse Leah Holder and her 10-month-old daughter Mercy James are celebrating their first Mother’s Day together thanks to the care they received from Holder’s colleagues at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis.
Holder, also the mother of a 3-year-old daughter, is an experienced nurse who has provided labor and delivery, postpartum and neonatal intensive care to patients at Saint Francis.
Her pregnancy was considered high-risk because 18 months earlier she’d given birth to a daughter at Saint Francis. The baby had been stillborn.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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