There was no way my micro-preemie could survive
But as my mazel would have it, the technician was taking a maddeningly long time.
“Do you think you can do this a little faster?” I asked, in what I hoped was a polite voice.
She gave me a funny look. “I think you should speak to the doctor,” she said evasively.
When the doctor looked at the scans, his brows furrowed. “I’m concerned about a couple of things,” he said. “One, I see some markers of Down syndrome. And two, you have placenta accreta, which means that the pregnancy has invaded the surrounding tissue. This condition is rare, but the risk increases with each caesarean delivery, and you’ve had five.
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