After Four Daughters, My Husband Finally Had the Son He’d Always Begged For – But When He First Held Our Newborn Boy, His Words Made My Stomach Sink

What is it?”

He didn’t answer. He was staring at the small of our baby’s back, at a mark I couldn’t see from where I lay.

“It can’t be,” he said, almost too softly to hear. “It can’t be, it can’t be.”

“Aaron.”

He leaned closer to the bassinet, as if a different angle might undo what he was seeing. His jaw worked. I watched him try to reason with it, watched continue reading …