My Wife Was Seven Months Pregnant When She Stopped Leaving Bed—Then I Lifted the Blue Blanket and Realized My Mother Already Knew What Was Underneath

The social worker stopped me gently.

“Clara doesn’t need every decision made today.”

Right.

Again.

I was swinging from not protecting enough to trying to control everything in the name of protection.

Clara said:

“I want to stay with my sister for a little while.”

Her sister Naomi lived twenty minutes away.