There, she had another ultrasound. Baby A looked fine, but the scan of Baby B was “heartbreaking,” she says. There were more concerning signs: an incomplete abdominal wall, indications of heart abnormalities, and the cystic hygromas had grown larger. The doctor had trouble getting the tissue sample for the diagnostic test. After multiple attempts, Miller recalls, he threw his gloves in the trash.
“He was very blunt, which was kind of refreshing, [saying], ‘Look, this baby is not going to make it to birth,'” Miller says.
Then, she remembers him saying: “You can’t do anything in Texas, and I can’t tell you anything further in Texas, but you need to get out of state.”
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