Seven months into her pregnancy, Theresa was sitting on the couch watching TV. She was waiting for Ryan to come back from the store with her juice.

I need a cigarette. No. I need to protect the baby.

She successfully fought off the urge and focused on the TV, when she felt a sharp pain in her stomach. She felt the baby lurch and it hurt her a lot.

Oh god!!

She called Ryan and he came back. They went to the hospital together, praying that nothing's wrong.

But something was wrong. The baby got its throat wrapped around the umbilical cord. The doctors needed to perform an emergency C-Section to save the baby's life.

They bought Theresa into the room and Ryan followed. He was wearing hospital scrubs, so nothing else went wrong.

The doctors immediately got to work. Ryan went over and saw what they were doing. What he saw made him vomit. The baby's head was sticking out, but it was stuck. What Ryan saw was a purple head and the umbilical cord wrapped around it.

The doctor was able to cut the umbilical cord and get the baby out. Its face was still a purple color as they were hooking it up to the machine. They were giving it oxygen. Ryan was forced out of the room and had to sit in the waiting area.

As soon as he sat down, he saw multiple doctors rushing into Theresa's room. Ryan got up and went to see what was going on.

He couldn't get a good view. He caught a glimpse of two doctors helping his baby, and about 4 helping Theresa. She wasn't moving. Ryan ran in, but was pushed out by a crowd of doctors.

"Wait out here son," a doctor said.

"No! What's going on? How's my son? How's Theresa?"

"We'll call you in when anything happens." With that, a security guard escorted him out.

Ryan was sitting the waiting room. His hands were shaking and his eyes were red and puffy from crying. He was there for about 5 minutes, when the doctor came in. Immediately, Ryan stood up.

"Sit down Mr. Atwood. You'll need to," he said. Ryan listened and stared at the doctor.

"I'm Dr. Grady, just to let you know," he said.

"How are they," Ryan said coldly.

"They baby's fine. He's just sleeping now. We still have him hooked up the oxygen machine. But that's for safety reasons. His face is still a little red and he has a scar on his throat that is most likely permanent."

"Where did it come from?" Ryan asked.

"When the umbilical cord got tangled, he got cut. It was minor, and it happened when he was still in the uterus. Theresa's body healed it."

"How's Theresa?"

Grady looked down, then back up at Ryan.

"Theresa passed away about 6 minutes ago."

Ryan stared at him. "How." He said.

"She had an aneurism."

Ryan looked at him.

"But she didn't have cancer," he said.

"Yes she did. She had a tumor in the brain, but no one knew about it. We think she might have felt some symptoms of it, but she just ignored them."

Ryan sank into the chair. He wants his baby to have a better life than he did. And he will.