My hands immediately moved to my stomach.
“And my baby?”
“Your son looks healthy right now. We will coordinate everything carefully to protect both of you as much as possible.”
I stared at the scan.
Something had possibly been growing inside me for years.
No pain.
No symptoms.
No warning.
Then I asked the question that changed everything for me.
“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.
And now the pregnancy everyone had feared might endanger me had revealed the very thing that might have eventually killed me.
