Eight Months Pregnant, I Asked My Husband to Stop the Car — He Left Me on the Road

of placental stress. They needed to observe me closely and were not prepared to call the situation stable yet. I lay in the bed and stared at the ceiling and listened to the sound of my baby’s heartbeat on the monitor and tried very hard not to think about what might have happened if Dana had not looked up from her grocery bags at the right moment.continue reading …