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He Doesn’t Want Our Baby. What Now?

Love tested, future uncertain

Mary Carter
5 min readOct 8, 2024

Life has a peculiar way of surprising us when we least expect it.

Sometimes, these surprises are blessings in disguise; other times, they’re challenges that test the limits of our love and resilience.

This is the story of a woman who finds herself at a crossroads she never imagined facing.

Since adolescence, she was told that motherhood wasn’t in her cards.

The diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and type 2 diabetes seemed to seal that fate.

Years passed, a marriage blossomed, and acceptance of a childless life became her reality.

But the universe had other plans.

Now, 31 weeks pregnant, this woman faces not just the physical and emotional changes of pregnancy, but also a storm in her marriage.

Her husband, her partner of 14 years, is oscillating between reluctant acceptance and total rejection of the idea of fatherhood.

“I always wanted to be a mother, but I had come to terms with not having children,” she shares, her voice heavy with emotion. The pregnancy, completely unexpected, brought to the surface long-buried feelings of maternal desire.

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