I was meeting with the doctors first thing this morning. Bright and early. They wanted me to have a check-up every once in a while, just to make sure that my body was responding well to the new diet. I wouldn’t be taking any fertility drugs, since I wasn’t the one that would be falling pregnant. But I needed to take vitamins, since my body was the one that would be sustaining and growing the baby.

As much as he wouldn’t have my DNA, he would grow from my blood, his heart ...