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Halfway Through My “Normal” Pregnancy, I Was Told We’d Have to Deliver the Baby or We’d Both Die

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As told to Erica Rimlinger In the summer of 2015, I had big news to share with my friends, family and all my hairstyling clients: I was pregnant. My husband and I were so excited to meet our first child. I was 32 years old and healthy, and the pregnancy was going great.In my pregnancy’s 18th week, I was working when I felt a new unfamiliar and severe pain right under my breasts in the center of my rib cage. I dismissed the feeling as indigestion, but as the day wore on, the pain grew worse and I found it hard to stand. Before this, I’d had no discomfort at all with the pregnancy. I knew this s...

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