Home News I had just given birth when my husband looked me in the eye and said, “Take the bus home. I’m taking my family to hotpot.” Two hours later, his voice was shaking on the phone: “Claire… what did you do? Everything is gone.”

I had just given birth when my husband looked me in the eye and said, “Take the bus home. I’m taking my family to hotpot.” Two hours later, his voice was shaking on the phone: “Claire… what did you do? Everything is gone.”

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Chapter 1: The Incubator and the IllusionThe hospital room was suffocatingly quiet, a stark, sterile silence broken only by the rhythmic, mechanical hum of the vital monitors and the tiny, wet, shuddering breaths of Claire’s newborn son resting against her chest. Every nerve ending in Claire’s body was screaming. She had been in grueling, agonizing labor for twenty-two hours before an emergency complication forced an immediate C-section. Her abdomen felt as though it were packed with crushed glass, the fresh surgical stitches pulling painfully with every shallow breath she took. She was bleeding, shivering from the post-anesthesia chill, and utterly,... Continues…