PLEASE NOTE - Trigger warning for pregnancy loss.
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Julia knew what was coming over the course of the next month even before the physician told her. She had been transported from her time when she was already in her early thirties, after all, and she had more than a handful of friends around her age or older who had tried for children. A failed pregnancy was not uncommon for women in their thirties, at least in her experience.
She pulled the covers tighter around herself. Failed pregnancy. It was easier to think of it like that instead of what it really was. She had hoped and prayed as she recovered in bed that this ugly, dark sickness pooling in her gut was nothing but overactive worries and fear, but when the bleeding began several days later, accompanied by sharp pains and cr
