During her 18-week baby scan, Blanca and her husband watched anxiously as the sonographer spent 10 minutes searching for signs of life. “I could tell there was something wrong,” she recalled of that late-August scan.
“She took the ultrasound wand off my stomach, and she was like, ‘I'm sorry, but there's no heartbeat.’” Blanca, 38, whom The Independent is only identifying by her first name to respect her privacy, was heartbroken.
