A pregnancy usually goes hand to hand with happiness, but some times that delightful
moment can turn into pain and when you are ready to face the worse that moment never
Some times when I look at my three year old daughter playing actively, I remember for
what my wife and me went through with her pregnancy; We were so happy when we
conceived our baby, since the first day we find out that she was expecting we started to
buy all types of baby items, we wanted to give everything to this baby.
I will never forget the third visit to the doctor; It was suppose to be a regular sonogram;
we were happy talking to the nurse while she was performing the sonogram, kindly she
was showing us on the screen the baby's feet, the arms, the heart beating and the head
but at the moment she focus on the brain the gesture on her face changed totally, it was
like she had seen a ghost; I knew something was wrong but I didn't tell my wife, I felt
my whole body twitching, then we were sent to see the main doctor; There he told us
that they had detected some thing in it's brain, I can't explain the level of pain that we
felt at the moment, all our plans, our happiness just ended.
After consulting with specialists and seeing counselors, we learned more about our
situation; we learned that a human body needs 46 chromosomes in order to be normal,
so they had to do a test on my wife to check the count of chromosomes on the fetus, then
they will determine if it is going to be normal or not; If the baby wasn't normal we would
had to take a decision weather to have it or not, it would take two long weeks to find out.
For those days we prepared ourselves for the worse, finally the day came and when we
went to see the doctor he went straight to the point saying "your baby is normal", we
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