That tiny movement frightened me more than the doctor’s words.
Later, after the baby had been taken for additional examinations, Michael finally sat beside my hospital bed.
His face looked completely different.
“We need to think about our future,” he said.
“Our future?”
He rubbed his hands together nervously.
“We’re only twenty-four. We know nothing about raising a child with special needs.”
I immediately started crying.
“He’s still our son.”
“I know.”
“No. You don’t.”
Michael looked toward the door.
Then he began listing everything that could go wrong.
Medical appointments.
Therapy.
Money.
School.
People judging us.
The possibility that our lives would never look the way we had planned.
After nearly seventeen hours of labor, I was completely exhausted, and every frightening thing he said seemed heavier than the last.
