“I have waited for this all my life,” she told them in a soft but firm voice, “and I will not allow fear to take away the only thing I have ever wanted.”

The day everything changed

Nine months later, her family rushed her to the hospital. She held her belly with pride and hope, convinced that the moment had finally arrived.

“It’s time,” he told the doctor with a bright smile on his tired face, “my baby is ready to meet the world.”

But as the doctor examined her, her expression changed completely. He called in other specialists, and murmurs began to fill the room.