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Right. All looking good for 22 weeks. Well, now it says here that mom wants natural child birth. Cool. Well, yeah. Yeah, that's the plan. Yeah. Yeah, they all say that. And on the day it's where those drugs can be the epidural. Okie dokie. All good. Great. All right. Thank you, doctor. Actually, sorry. We've we have some questions. Mhm. yeah. No, just things like about hypertension and preclampsia. Yeah. You don't have signs of any of those. right. Okay, great. But did read that black women are more likely to suffer from been on Google, You really have nothing to worry about. Great. Mhm. Great. Okay. Thank you, doctor. Hey, sorry. fine. It's just that doctor, you know, we've had three appointments with him. He never calls me Ruby. It's his mom. It's cute. Yeah, he does. He's super busy, isn't he? How many appointments do you have? What do you mean super? The woman before us, the blond the blonde, Katie. He's not too busy to know her name, is he? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Would you like me to go back and have we work? No, no, no, no. Maybe I'll go back. I'll be like, "Hey, doctor, you call my wife by your name." do. don't want you to go think that's what's wrong. Are you all right? what's wrong? my god. What's wrong? What's wrong? No, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. The baby just kicked you. We burn the we think it's going to happen again. It's kind of amazing. Maybe we'll just guess. Come back. Come back. We're going. We're going home. Between now and me going into labor, need you to get tons of sleep. Great idea. Why? Because when we get into hospital, there might be some really difficult decisions to make. What? What's going on? Well, they don't always listen to women who look like me. They don't like sexy, gorgeous women. Come on. Sexy, gorgeous, erotically char. Are you serious? Rube, nothing bad is going to happen. Hey, it's us. Look, if we can handle each other's families, we can do this. All right. Okay. Seriously? Seriously, love you. love you, too. honey. Don't. What's going on? Are you okay? don't know. Okay. Yeah. My wife is pregnant. This think the baby is coming. It's way too early. 17 Stone Road. You made it. my god. Come in. Come in. Come in. Do you want to hang your stuff up there? And so glad you came. It's been so awful for you, but hopefully we can cheer you up bit. Come through. Come through. Look who's here. Hey, Bruce. Hi. hey. Guys to see you too, mate. did. How's it going for the seller? How's it going? Hi guys. Ruby. Ruby. Will Ruby Sarah Jakey? you sit down. Hello. Hi, Sarah. Lovely to meet you. Wine. Yeah. Go felt right. What about you guys? How do you know them? was at college with this one and until very recently used to play football every week till recently. Mhm. Not anymore. kept getting injured, so thought he'd try golf. wasn't actually didn't get injured. just kind of hung up the boots. was It was my my time at home. Sarah, do you miss having drink? god, yeah. Every day. How many weeks are you now? 30. 35. Yeah. five. 35. 35. Yeah. the end. know. It's getting very very close. Your whole life's about to change. Yes. Terriel. The baby just kicked. Any names? Thought of any names? So, think we have Go on our options. We did have to Yeah, we wait for it. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. have to I'm so sorry. have to go. I'm so sorry. Are you okay? Move. Rub me. no. my god. You got your notes? Dr. Far will be here soon. You can wait bit longer, can't you? We need your notes first. Cold. Cold. All right, let's see here. 22 weeks plus one day technically late miscarriage as it's before the 24 week mark. Doctor, I'll come and talk to you soon. Sorry for the wait. right. Is it my fault? Did kill my baby? Sometimes these things know the statistics. Black women are more Yes. did ask. You can't say yet. I'm so sorry for your loss. can't leave my baby. Yeah, right. We're going to kick your ass, mate. All right. Okay. 2 p.m. All right. I'll see you then. Bye. Hello. Hey. How can you carry on like nothing's happened? I'm I'm sorry. What? You're making plans and and laughing and am stuck. I'm stuck in that night every minute of every day. It's like you're forgetting our baby. I'm sorry. It's like No one listened to me. mean, not even you. You just you just sat there. Okay. Okay. Stop. Tell me to stop. You are my husband and we are supposed to be team and have have never felt more alone. How can you say? You're telling my mom. mean, how could you? You don't even like each other. Because you need some support. Clearly not getting any from you. You're not getting any support from me. Taking me to that dinner party. YOU HAVEN'T LEFT THE HOUSE IN BREAKFAST. DON'T EVEN KNOW. didn't know. You said nothing bad would happen to us because bad things don't happen to people like you. Well, something bad did happen to me, didn't it? She was my baby, too. It's not the same. Still the same. They listen to you. And they spoke to you. was invisible. Hey, different grace. She was your baby, too. Rub, I'm really sorry. didn't didn't see it. wasn't wasn't nervous. Why are you here for me now? It's okay. Well, the thing about this is it changes you in ways you think You'll never know. yeah. The thing about this is the way the world around you still just seems to turn. no words, no songs, no sounds, no time. Away, away. No light, just you here in my mind. Each stage, each day will always carry you with me. will always carry you with me. All the way around. All the way around. Won't you wake me up? But it's so Well, one thing about this, how it floors me in million ways never knew it would. and one thing about this are the southern friends who never bring themselves to say word. It's future that's stolen. Now I'm in neverending night. picture when you're older. In the parallel life in my mind. will always carry you with me. will always carry you with me all the way around. All the way around. Won't you wake me up when it's over please? Forever.