Just after Thanksgiving 2019, her care team at Providence’s Sacred Heart Medical Center informed her that David John had a fatal case of trisomy — each of his genes carried three copies of a chromosome, instead of two. The best-case scenario, they told Kate, was that she would carry her child to full term, and he would live for up to 48 hours sustained only by tubes and ventilators. More likely, though, Kate’s pregnancy would naturally terminate itself at some point.
Nonviable pregnancies are relatively common, and often result in a miscarriage — the natural loss of a fetus before 20 weeks of gestation — or a stillbirth, the same
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