Keep the Baby, Mom
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My mother-in-law got pregnant at fifty-nine.
She had diabetes and high blood pressure, so I talked her out of keeping it. I thought I was saving her life.
I never imagined that months later my husband would die in a car crash, or that his parents would never get pregnant again, no matter what they tried.
They said I'd wiped out their family. So they put weed killer in my water.
My organs shut down one by one. My lungs turned to scar tissue. I suffocated slowly, wide awake for every second of it.
Then I opened my eyes on the night she told us she was pregnant.
This time, I took her hand and smiled. "Keep the baby, Mom. I'll help you raise it."
She had diabetes and high blood pressure, so I talked her out of keeping it. I thought I was saving her life.
I never imagined that months later my husband would die in a car crash, or that his parents would never get pregnant again, no matter what they tried.
They said I'd wiped out their family. So they put weed killer in my water.
My organs shut down one by one. My lungs turned to scar tissue. I suffocated slowly, wide awake for every second of it.
Then I opened my eyes on the night she told us she was pregnant.
This time, I took her hand and smiled. "Keep the baby, Mom. I'll help you raise it."


















































