REMI'S POV
Okafor said, at the thirty-one-week appointment: "We should talk about the birth plan."
She said it with the matter-of-fact quality she brought to milestones — not announced, not surrounded by particular gravity. Simply placed on the table like everything else she placed there: accurately, and at the right time.
We were in her office. Not the examination room — her actual office, with the desk and the two chairs and the specific quality of a room where serious conversations happened rather than just clinical assessments. She had asked us to come twenty minutes before the standard appointment, which was the signal I'd learned: twenty minutes before meant there was something to discuss that deserved the desk.
Dax was in the chair to my left. He had come to every appointment si
