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ChapterThree
Hallie
Three months later
“Um, what?”
My doctor studied me before nodding slowly. “You're pregnant.”
“Why? How? Oh, my god!” I sputtered.
“Well, I presume you got pregnant the usual way. You’ve been attributing these symptoms to endometriosis, but that’s not it.”
“Oh, wow.” I sat there in shock as I tried to absorb this news.
“I'm assuming you have a boyfriend then,” Dr. Williams added.
“Uh, no. We used condoms.”
She nodded. “Well, since we’d just removed your IUD the month before, you had a higher chance of getting pregnant.” My IUD had expired, so she’d removed it. Since I’d planned to schedule surgery, I’d chosen not to get another one at the time.
“But, how did I get pregnant?” My brain felt thick, as if I was missing something.
“Because no birth control is 100 percent,” she said matter-of-factly.
“Oh.” I paused, trying to collect my thoughts. “But with endometriosis, my chances weren’t that good.”
She shrugged. “Therewasa chance.”
“How far along am I?”
“Ballpark, three months.”
I silently did the math in my brain. I’d met Chase—oh, my god!—almost exactly three months ago. I swallowed and took a shaky breath. “Okay, what do I do?”
“What do you mean?”
“Can I safely have a baby?”
“Just like birth control, I can’t make guarantees, but yes, you can safely have a baby.”
“But you told me my chances of successfully getting pregnant were very low.”
“Low doesn’t mean impossible. Did you think it was impossible?”
I sighed, swinging my legs where they were dangling from the exam table. “Well, yeah, I did. I was about to look into the whole IVF thing because I wanted to do that before I lost the chance completely.”
Dr. Williams sat down across from me on a stool. “You're pregnant. If you want to keep the baby, I think you should. Endometriosis is chronic, and we know you have a severe case. The last time you had surgery, it was stage four. Even though we've been doing things to manage it, you already have another cyst on one of your ovaries, and it's getting larger.”
“Will that cause problems with my pregnancy?”
“We can deal with it.”
I took a deep breath, still trying to scramble my thoughts together.
“Is the father someone you're friendly with? Will he support you in this process?” she asked gently.
“Well, uh, I don’t know.”
