I h:id my career as a judge from my mother-in-law. After my C-section, she stormed in with adoption papers, demanding one twin for her infe:rtile daughter. I clutched my babies and pressed the panic button.
I never revealed my real profession to my mother-in-law. In her eyes, I was nothing more than the “unemployed wife” living off her son’s success.
Just hours after my C-section, while anesthesia still dulled my body and my newborn twins rested against my chest, she barged into my private hospital suite holding a thick stack of papers.
“Sign these immediately,” she ordered. “You don’t deserve to live like this. And you’re certainly not capable of raising two babies.”
The recovery suite at St. Mary’s Medical Pavilion resembled a luxury hotel more than a medical facility.
