Then, suddenly, she fell sick.
“I was like, ‘Wow, menopause, that was quick,'” Liz recalled.
But the 45-year-old had made the wrong assumption.
“The doctor did a test and came back giggling,” she continued.
Then they said eight words Liz will never forget: “You are not in menopause, you are pregnant.”
She couldn’t believe it, and told the doctor as such.
“I was like, ‘No that’s impossible… there is just no way’,” Liz said.
“I had worked so hard on myself that this was a shock and I did not know how to accept this information.”
Still in denial, she rushed to take seven pregnancy tests. Though each one came back positive, Liz and Greg were in utter “disbelief” that, after years of agony, they had fallen pregnant naturally.
It wasn’t until Liz’s 12-week scan that the reality set in.
“I saw this little thing, that little outline, and the emotion poured over me,” she said. “It was like I wasn’t crying, but tears were coming down my face.”
Five minutes later, however, the doctor delivered confronting news.
“It’s not looking good… there’s too much fluid behind the [baby’s] neck. We’re looking at chromosomal issues or possibly down syndrome.”
What came next, Liz described as “one of the deepest spiritual experiences” of her life.
“I had to learn present moment awareness because there was a little thing in my body that had arrived here, even though the doctors told me things might not be right, I still had to move forward,” sje said.
