A viva carefully pasted a big smile on her face and then opened the front door. She was assaulted at once by her entire clan. “Mommy! You’re home!”
Yael’s in-laws surprise her with a weekend getaway. Aviva has her 20-week ultrasound, and the technician sees something worrisome
A viva carefully pasted a big smile on her face and then opened the front door. She was assaulted at once by her entire clan. “Mommy! You’re home!”
“What’s for dinner?”
“How’d it go?”
The last one was from Zevi asked quietly and Aviva gave him a brief private nod. “It was fine ” she said though her heart squeezed hard inside her at the lie. Now in front of the kids was not the time to talk.
He smiled an easy reassured smile; she felt like screaming. No! It’s not fine at all! The entire world is tumbling down! But she had to get a grip on herself because she was the mother here and she had to be strong; she could not let her children see how terrified she was inside how she was carrying a baby who might be wrong all wrong…
She shook her head struggling to place her anxiety inside a box and shut the cover firmly. Later after she’d made dinner and put her kids to bed after Zevi had left for shul in blissful ignorance she would sit by the computer and research markers and amniocentesis and every little bit of information the technician had thrown her way after insisting that she must speak to her OB to get actual medical guidance.
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