About Heather McLeod

Heather McLeod is a mother of three with her fourth on the way, and an educator who works with elementary school children in the city of Toronto. In the scraps of free time she is able to catch before they fly by, she likes to write novels and poetry. She writes poetry about motherhood under the Instagram handle @black.spruce.poetry. She dreams of one day being able to pursue writing full-time.

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A Chance Ultrasound Saved My Son

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During that fateful ultrasound to determine our baby’s sex, the technician noticed pockets of fluid inside our son’s lung cavity. We were told that our baby was a boy and then, instead of going to lunch to celebrate, to dream, to plan – we were immediately sent to the hospital to wait in nervous silence for someone to tell us what was going to happen.