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Making a difference: Pregnant again
Author(s) -
Aitken Peter
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
emergency medicine australasia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1742-6723
pISSN - 1742-6731
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01407.x
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , emergency department , library science , family medicine , nursing , computer science
[Extract] 'I'm pregnant again' she said. 'I just wanted to say thank you'. She had approached me at the supermarket checkout. I had been packing the trolley while my wife paid the bill, our usual routine. My wife looked at her, then looked at me, unspoken questions in her eyes. \ud\udI'm not sure if you are supposed to be happy when another woman tells you that she is pregnant in front of your wife, but I was. Tears started to form and I had that choking feeling in my voice. 'That's fantastic news. Thank you for letting me know.' \ud\udThat was really how the story ended for me, rather than how it began. \u