“I will never leave you. If we have another child, I’ll be right there. I’ll go to every appointment… the birth… everything I missed with Jimi.”

I wrapped my arms around him. I was afraid. Trauma, really. The way I discovered Jimi’s pregnancy… and everything that followed had been devastating. The thought of another child sent me into panic. What if the same illness? No, I didn’t have the strength to live through it again.

Fred seemed to sense my panic. He pulled me ...