Chapter 101— Mom’s Journal

Today I’m here, lying in my bed, looking at my belly and stroking it. As I talk to my baby, memories come flooding back… along with regrets.

Yes, I regret those early moments in this pregnancy when I thought about having an abortion.

I didn’t want to admit it, but I did.

It felt unfair to bring a child into the world with everything Adrián and I were going through: a divorce on the horizon, a “stepmother” who, in my mind, would have been Valeria, a life surrounded