There, a security guard put her in a wheelchair. She didn't want to return to the first ER, so she called her mother and husband and told them to meet her at Baton Rouge General in nearby Prairieville. "And so I was like, 'No, I have to go somewhere, like now.' " "It literally felt like I had almost birthed a child," she says.
Landon, her husband, was afraid for her life.īy the evening, Joshua was pacing her bathroom floor, bleeding and cramping, when she felt more blood and tissue come out of her body. The next day, her bleeding and pain were worse. Kaitlyn and Landon Joshua say the difficult experience Kaitlyn had seeking care for her miscarriage has caused them to put their plans for having more children on hold. Wade, and with what the woman called a gray area in Louisiana's law, the group was delaying the first prenatal appointment with patients. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. She remembers the woman on the phone saying that since the U.S. Is this because of what I think? And they said, 'Yes.'" "They specifically said, 'We now no longer see women until they're at least 12 weeks,'" Joshua recalls. But Joshua says the woman on the line told her she was going to have to wait over a month. She wanted to make her first prenatal appointment there for around the eight-week mark, as she had in her first pregnancy. They have a 4-year-old daughter, and thought that was just the right age to help out with a younger sibling.Īt about six weeks pregnant, Joshua, 30, called a physicians' group in Baton Rouge. – When Kaitlyn Joshua found out she was pregnant in mid-August, she and her husband, Landon Joshua, were excited to have a second baby on the way. But two different emergency rooms she went to wouldn't confirm she was miscarrying or explain her treatment options.īATON ROUGE, La. The cover is a thing of beauty too.Kaitlyn and Landon Joshua were worried for Kaitlyn's health when she started to bleed heavily and had labor-like pains early in her pregnancy.
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The book is also very funny at times, full of engaging, thriving characters, that the reader connects to and does not wish the book to finish, a mark indeed of a very good tale, as we wish to linger a little longer in the company of these delightful characters. Gowar’s ear for dialogue is pitch-perfect, rendering delightful and credible late 18th-century conversation. Jonah and Angelica are faced with challenges and discover that sometimes you need to be careful what you seek and wish for. The reader knows that very soon in the novel (the title gives it away, mayhap) that they will meet and the outcome. Meanwhile, Angelica Neal is a high-class courtesan, whose rich benefactor, a duke, has just died, leaving her once again to find her own way in the world and rely upon her not inconsiderable beauty and charms. He is nonplussed when its captain returns, having sold the vessel in exchange for an ugly dried sea-creature that he claims is a mermaid. Jonah Hancock is a trader, a widower, waiting upon the return of a prized vessel, the Calliope, to advance his wealth. For this is an entrancing novel that grasps the reader from the very beginning. This book has also received a high degree of publicity and many plaudits, and for once it is indeed fully deserved. Too many times I have read a book, very often by a first-time published writer, that has been stratospherically praised by the media, only to be rather disappointed.
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