OUR SUPERBOY

Holding my husband’s hand, I waited patiently for the ultrasound results.

My heart was thumping with anxiety, and I had a hunch that something was wrong.

‘It’ll be okay,’ my husband Rob, 42, smiled.

I was 21-weeks pregnant with our baby boy.

‘I’m so sorry Valerie,’ the sonographer said.

‘The ultrasound revealed that you have an incompetent cervix.’

I had never heard of it before, but I quickly learnt that an incompetent cervix is a medical condition where the cervix shortens and opens prematurely in pregnancy.

Early into pregnancy, it can be fatal and often causes women to miscarry.

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