Article May 13, 2019 Issue

How’s the baby? She’s perfect.

Pete Paciorek

It was news I’d never expected. During a routine checkup when my wife was pregnant with our second child, she was told by the doctor that there was a high likelihood that our daughter would be born with a serious birth defect.

My wife called me immediately from her car in despair. I felt overwhelmed in a way I had never experienced before. I am a lifelong student of Christian Science, and at this time, my wife was a relatively new student of Christian Science. We shared some ideas of what’s true about God’s children—that we are each spiritual reflections of a good God.

After I hung up the phone, I felt a tsunami-like wave of fear and uncertainty rushing into my consciousness. Emotion enveloped me as I collapsed in tears in the back corner of the sports training facility where I worked.

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