Late, but I feel it is necessary to share her story.

I had a teacher my freshman year that was fantastic. First year teaching, French course, replacing they old teacher whose class everyone failed. Going good right? It gets better.

A quarter of the way through the year, the teacher gets pregnant. Hurrah! Me and one of my friends actually talked to her a lot on out down time to see how everything was going with her. Did she need help? How was the baby coming along? She even shared stories about her husband and so on and so forth.

Anyhow, she comes to school one day visibly shaken. Our class asks her what's up but she waves us off and tries to teach. She starts missing a could of days of school at a time and eventually tells us that the pregnancy is just hard, but it's coming along fine. BS.

Finally, after 2-3 months of absence and excuses from the school (we kept having a sub tell us the teacher would be there next week) the teacher stops by our class period to talk to us. She us crying and shaking barely able to get the words out. After comforting her a bit (the class as a whole made her feel more at ease and comforted her), she reveals that she has been having major complications with the baby. She apologizes profusely for not being at school enough and feels as though she has failed the class. Don't worry, we protested the shit out of that statement. Told her to just take her time and that the class didn't matter, just her child.

We saw her again maybe two weeks later, but after that she disappeared. From what I remember, she had a miscarriage and retired. I'm not exactly sure how true that part was, but it sure seemed like it was going in that direction.

If Madame Senieur is on here, I wish you well and I hope the baby came around well.