POV: Olivia

I had a doctor’s appointment this Tuesday morning. Dominic and I were driven to the hospital in the ordinary way of people attending a routine appointment. This is the first proper prenatal visit, the one I had been both anticipating and quietly anxious about since the chaos of the preceding weeks. I had not allowed myself to think too far ahead of this appointment. I had held the pregnancy carefully, at a slight distance from my full emotional investment, the way you hold something precious when you are not yet certain the ground beneath you is stable enough to set it down properly.

We sat in the waiting...