In Diane Kraynak essay , what does she means when she say" That night, we dis not leave the unit empty handed.

 

"That night, we dis not leave the unit empty handed"

The line above means that the two parents in her essay left the hospital without their baby. The baby died an hour after she was delivered. The married couple sober and were heartbroken leaving their lifeless baby on the arms of the nurse.

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  "Twelve noon," Dr. Manali said to me, calling time of death. I blinked in acknowledgment.

     Grandma passed Lamonica to Mom, who kissed her and passed her back to me. Dad kissed her. The family filed out of the room. I held her over my shoulder. She was still a warm bundle, just as she had been an hour ago. But she wasn't breathing. Her blood wasn't running through her. The pump had stopped. The chemical reactions and electrical impulses that were life itself had ended. She had lost, and we'd lost her.

     Her family trudged down the hall. Dad pushed Mom, flanked by grandparents. They'd bent their heads. Sniffing and crying echoed off the concrete walls, the scuffed white linoleum, and the flickering fluorescent lights. They disappeared through the door, empty-handed, leaving their child in my arms.