3 hours ago, SassyPants said:
1 thing I have to wonder about is with Jill’s poor OB history (a couple of LGA babies, 2-3 NIUC stays (was Izzy in the NICU?), A ruptured uterus, 2 miscarriages, one a late miscarriage, c-section deliveries…) I just have to wonder about when the Dillards would say “we have 3 healthy boys”, and maybe “we can call our family complete”. I always got the feeling that Jill reallllllly wanted a daughter, and this baby being a girl, must be very hard. The D’s admit to using BC, so they are deciding when to try to conceive and not “leaving it up to God.” Maybe God is trying to tell them something? They have never had a smooth delivery- I think I might say, “I am done.”
FWIW I don't find that 'maybe God is trying to tell them something' is a particularly helpful thing to say about someone who has just lost a baby. Ask me how I know!!!!
But to treat your question as one made in good faith: per Counting the Cost it sounds like they did serious thinking about this after Samuel's very dangerous birth, especially as they didn't know if he had suffered brain damage. It sounds like it did a bit of a number on her existentially, to think of herself as someone who wouldn't have millions of children, but she seemed to be willing to park that vision.
I am 100% certain that after Samuel they will have proceeded with extreme caution. There's no way they haven't sought (and taken) good medical advice for her last 3 pregnancies. There are a million reasons a baby doesn't make it to term, most of them utterly beyond our control or prediction.
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