After discovering that her baby had a rare genetic disorder, Rowan Pelling reflects on choosing to terminate her pregnancy at 12 weeks
Rowan Pelling, The Telegraph
18 June 2025
There is no silence more ominous that the deadly hush of a previously chatty sonographer carrying out a 12-week nuchal scan on a pregnant woman’s belly.
I remember the sudden knitting of her brow and an ill-disguised attempt to mask serious concern. I could no longer look at the screen, so I turned to my husband Angus, whose face was dark with anxiety. He told me afterwards that he could already see our tiny, frog-like baby’s emerging features looked somehow “wrong”.
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