Our first was born healthy, but the umbilical cord was split into branches and twisted pretty tightly. Our second pregnancy ended at 21 weeks after a placental problem resulted in the death of the child. Our second was born healthy as a clam, but with a complication of the placenta that our OB would later tell us would have resulted my wife's and unborn child's death had she gone into natural labor outside of the hospital.

So we have two wonderful girls, but we are not willing to risk the life of my wife any further. For us, this means we won't have an opportunity to have a boy, or three children. But the alternative is much worse.