THE COMPLEX

“And so they kept falling into that percentage!” my friend says. “Can you imagine? There was a less than three percent chance of it occurring and it still happened to them.” She’s telling us the story of couple’s tragedy-rife journey in having a child. Pregnancy is a complicated chapter in one’s life. Often, people think it’s purely a time of joy and celebration, a pastel daydream that moves from one delightful trimester to the next, culminating in a birthing montage set to a Motown beat, followed by a string orchestra crescendo as the beautiful babe is brought to an exhausted but