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It was a Thursday in late October 2016. I was 38 years old and 35 and a half weeks into my third pregnancy. Two years earlier, I had given birth to my amazing daughter. I was less lucky when my second pregnancy ended in an early-term miscarriage. But it happens. A lot. There was nothing wrong with me. And this third pregnancy, so far, was a good one. The new baby was healthy and thriving inside my bulbous, expanding abdomen. | The morning my son Izzy died, everything was usual. The babysitter came. I went to yoga. I noticed on my way to the studio that I hadn't felt the baby move since I'd woken up. But I told myself that I must have been distracted by the early-morning chaos and that I would feel him when I lay on my back in Savasana after practice was over. He had a way of kicking me when I was in my most relaxed state — typical child. | In the studio, anxious thoughts came and went in my mind. Was that a movement, maybe? What if something's wrong? I'm too old to have a baby. Maybe I shouldn't be exercising. When the class finished, I lay on my back and waited for him to shift and kick inside me so the painful mental dance would stop and I could go about my day. He didn't move. I went home and made a lasagna in a white ceramic dish with a chipped corner. Then I went to the hospital. | Dive into all our stories on style, self, culture, and power. Subscribe now to save over 40% on unlimited access to the Cut and everything New York. | Legacy Russell — author of the new book Black Meme, which analyzes of the broadcast and circulation of Blackness throughout history — told us about her ideal day in New York. | | | | Read More » | | Nicholas Galitzine recently shared in a profile that he's felt "guilt" and "uncertainty" over playing queer roles. | | | | Read More » | | Cat Zhang celebrates the end of Ava's cheugy millennial wardrobe in Hacks, which gets an upgrade in the new season. | | | | Read More » | | The Biebers announced via Instagram that they have a baby on the way. We might be getting new music, too. | | | | Read More » | | Can you guess which presidential candidate had a literal worm in his brain? | | | | Read More » | Sign up to get Brooding, a subscriber-only newsletter interrogating modern family life, written by Kathryn Jezer-Morton. | | | |
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