Significant Moments

CALLA'S POV

Abiola said, at the thirty-one-week appointment: "We should talk about the birth plan."

She said it with the matter-of-fact quality she brought to milestones — not announced, not surrounded by particular gravity. Simply placed on the table like everything else she placed there: accurately, and at the right time.

We were in her office. Not the examination room — her actual office, with