I didn't realize how unprepared I was for the news that came. Estonia is a very tiny nation. It's got 1.3 million people which means everyone knows everyone. Options of many kinds can be limited.
Part 4: The results are in
Part 3: What if this one is disabled, too?
My fifth pregnancy had just passed 13 weeks and it was the night before the genetic bloodtest was supposed to come back. If you asked me that night what we'd do if the results showed some sort of genetic abnormality, I still wasn't sure.
Part 2: New family expansion plan
Brian and I did some soul searching Fall 2022. We'd lost 5 babies in 4 pregnancies and had a profoundly disabled daughter. Yet still, our hearts didn't seem to be hardened, even after all we'd been through. We decided it was a sign we should keep going -- we'd handle whatever came our way, just like we always did. Instead, we waited. And waited. And waited.
Eloise The Tiny Fighter 