S P A C E | Seattle, 'Excerpts from The DIve'

'A shadow under my heart whispered something else. This isn’t going to bode well. In pregnancy, you get weird dreams, but one of them shocked me awake. I saw something happening to my foetus, something not good at all, involving so much blood. I shook Yoshi to consciousness so he could hold, and settle me. That wasn’t even two days before.

That’s how I wound up at Swedish Medical’s high risk unit, on the table, awaiting the needle. The one that got the fluid, for an amniocentesis. Such a big word, and I didn’t even know what it meant at the start. There was so much I didn’t know, before. But I did the research you do when you’re weighing all the risks. One in four hundred babies that get tested spontaneously abort. Did I want to take that risk? Or did I want to chance it that the foetus would be normal, after all, without a birth defect?...'