I Was in Active Labor When My Husband Chose a Fishing Trip. The Call He Made After Changed Everything.

asked for my emergency contact and I wrote “N/A.” She asked where the baby’s father was and I said he was unavailable. She and the other nurse exchanged a look—that look women give each other when they understand something without words.

One of them, a kind woman in her fifties named Rita, squeezed my hand and said, “Honey, you’re stronger than you continue reading …