One previous pregnancy.
Outcome: termination at approximately eight weeks.
Five years ago.
Ethan stared at the screen.
His heartbeat changed.
He read it again.
Previous pregnancy.
Five years ago.
Termination.
He remembered the week before their breakup.
Hannah had been nauseated.
She blamed cheap cafeteria food.
She had fallen asleep in his car twice.
She complained that coffee suddenly smelled disgusting.
He had joked that she was becoming impossible.
Then everything had ended.
Ethan sat down.
A cold feeling spread through him.
No.
He was constructing ghosts from coincidences.
Yet he could not stop.
He looked deeper into the chart.
The prior pregnancy entry had been added from an outside clinic.
Provider: Westbridge Women’s Center.
Closed four years ago.
No additional records.
He stared at the screen.
“Hannah.”
Behind him, someone spoke.
“Dr. Caldwell?”
He turned.
One of the NICU nurses held a specimen bag.
“We need maternal blood for additional neonatal compatibility testing.”
