She Said I Couldn’t Hold The Baby Because Of “Germs” — The Real Reason Broke My Heart

on whatever had been loudest and replaces it with something steadier. I hoped for that. I wanted her to become someone I could trust more fully.

Then Mason was born, and everything I thought I knew about the situation began to quietly come apart.

At the hospital, I stood beside her bed with my heart beating faster than it had any rational reason to. continue reading …