Giving Birth After a Miscarriage

They point to my belly and say baby number 3, but to me, it’s baby number 5

Photo by Alex Pasarelu on Unsplash

I gave birth to my son in a private Chinese hospital in the depths of Beijing. The room in which I pushed my son out into the world is located one floor above the ultrasound rooms. It was in one of these rooms in the not so distant past that I came face to face with a monitor that…