After 3 Boys, We Gave Up Our Dream of a Daughter—Then My Husband Called Me to the Hospital and Said, “There’s a Baby Here”

Pink.

With one name embroidered on the corner.

Maya.

PART 6 — FOUR CHILDREN

Maya reached six weeks before I realized how badly I had been neglecting myself.

Not in some dramatic way.

I was eating.

Sleeping whenever possible.

Showering most days.

But my whole attention had become logistics.