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  • Dumbo Feather

    A Portal to Grace

    May 02, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS: LORI LAKIN HUTCHERSON
    ILLUSTRATION: CARLA MCRAE

    I’m 37, pregnant and petrified. My husband and I have already had one miscarriage and don’t want to chance another. But my hormone levels have spiked and my doctor strongly recommends amniocentesis. Although it’s meant to be a safe procedure to detect genetic or chromosomal defects, amnio carries between one-in-200 and one-in-400 odds of causing miscarriage. It’s a less-than-one-percent risk, but to me it feels all too likely.

    Six weeks earlier, when I saw and heard our child’s

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