Camille told me the baby was measuring behind but that the doctor wasn’t alarmed. Later, she said she needed more rest and less stress, and because her previous pregnancies had ended so badly, I didn’t question her.
When she asked me to sleep in the guest room because my snoring kept waking her, I moved that same night.
When she stopped letting me rub her stomach, she said it made her nervous.
I respected that too.
Looking back, I can see how desperately I wanted to believe her.