Gilmore Girls - New Beginnings

33. Hartford Family Secret's Galore

In the parlor

"I can see you weren't exactly excited about possibly bringing home a 3rd newborn," Betty says

"I'm just so overwhelmed with all of this it's been 24 hours of roller coasters. Honestly, I was hoping it was all a joke or that he wasn't the father, but I was prepared for him to be the father. I just didn't know what I was going to do if he wanted me to help him raise another baby so close to the age of Eli and Emi" Rory says

"I understand. What Logan and honor don't know is at one time I was able to get pregnant. I was pregnant with twins but miscarried around the time Shira showed up. I was slightly further along than she was but I guess with all the stress of Final's, Graduation and wedding planning I lost them, We found out from a blood test we were having a girl and a boy. Mitchum and I decided not to tell Logan and Honor because we didn't want them to feel the sense of loss for siblings they never got, or to have Honor think it was her fault for being conceived by Shira. I know Honor had always wanted a little brother and a sister too and was so happy when she got Logan. I still remember Honor at 5 and Logan at 2.5 asking Shira and Mitchum for a new baby and Shira shutting it down saying she didn't need any more children and didn't have the time" Betty says

"I think that was at the time of your 3rd pregnancy wasn't it?" Mitchum asked

Rory just looked at them in shock

"Yes, It was about 3 days later we found out, and I was rushed to the ER," Betty says

"Would it be ok if you told me about the second and 3rd pregnancy's?" Rory asked

"The second pregnancy was a surprise we found out the day Shira started to blackmail me. The pregnancy lasted till about 36 weeks. It was a girl we named angel because she was stillborn." Mitchum says

"Oh," Rory said with a sad tone

"I was just sitting down one day thinking about the last time I felt the baby move and realized she hadn't moved all day, so I sat there trying to get her to move and nothing. I went to the hospital, and they had told me they couldn't find a heartbeat and I had two options, One to deliver naturally or two I could have a C-section, they suggested an emergency C-section because she could have been alive still and just have a weak heartbeat" Betty says

"She called me right away, and I got to the hospital just in time for her to be wheeled out of the operating room, I held her, and we cried for the loss of our little girl," Mitchum said

"That's so sad, do they know why it happened?" Rory asks

"The cord got wrapped around her neck and the more she moved, the tighter the cord got," Betty says

"Oh my god, that's horrible," Rory says shedding a tear

"Don't cry, sweetie. everything happens for a reason?" Betty says

"Just like this little guy here, he was born to give us our chance at having our own family," Mitchum says smiling

"I guess that's true. What happened with the 3rd pregnancy, how come you had to have surgery?" Rory asks

"The only reason we found out I was pregnant was that it was what they call a tubal pregnancy, I had to have the one fallopian tube removed and was told it would be best if I was never to fate getting pregnant again and so I asked to have my tubes tied, " Betty says

"So adoption is the only way you could have ever had children," Rory says

"Yes, and as a single person back then you couldn't adopt, so I stayed childless. I could have had a friend carry a baby for me but I only wanted a child with Mitchum, and back then they wanted the name of the man producing the other half of the baby if it was a private donation and I only wanted a child with Mitchum." Betty says