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“If I had never gotten pregnant, when would you have found it?”
The doctor was silent for a moment.
“Possibly much later.”
Thomas looked at me.
Neither of us said anything.
I thought about every person who had criticized me for wanting a baby at my age.
Every doctor who had warned me.
Every moment when I had wondered whether I was making the biggest mistake of my life.
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And now the pregnancy everyone had feared might endanger me had revealed the very thing that might have eventually killed me.
The following months were some of the hardest of my life.
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My doctors monitored me constantly.
There were appointments where I cried before even walking through the hospital doors.
There were nights when Thomas and I stayed awake wondering whether we could emotionally survive another loss.
But our son kept growing.
And I kept fighting.