Why?

[Jimbits76]

Nancy

I was terrified when Claire was pregnant that something would happen to her.

At the time I always thought "Save Claire not the child" if anything was to happen but it's funny how things change once they're born and growing. I'm not saying I would put William's life before Claire's but I now wouldn't be able to make a decision like that so easily.

Being an expectant father is tough...you don't have the biological crap that the mother goes through but we have our own secret mental baggage. Impotance and uselessness is a major feeling...you have this person carrying another person and you want to protect both more than anything in the world yet there is really nothing you can do. You want the baby to be strong and survive until birth but when you think of the thousands of things that could go wrong the bottom drops out from your world.
Expectant fathers can be as emotionally weak as the baby they want to protect.
Then they are born and all that fear goes away. The relief, joy and love is beautiful.

Somebody for no reason at all took all that away from this girl, her partner and their families.

It breaks my heart.

J