Dr.
Patel returned with the pediatrician, who completed another examination and described the routine follow-up planned for the mark.
The pediatrician emphasized that neither resemblance nor a relative's history replaced individual assessment, and we both listened with relief.
The baby had no immediate problems identified during that examination, and the team promised to explain any additional tests before proceeding.
Chloe asked whether she could choose a name now, and I told her the baby had been waiting for one.
She called her Iris, because the little girl had opened her eyes during the storm and seemed determined to watch everything.
Iris stretched one tiny hand around Chloe's finger, and for a moment I could picture the family we had imagined.
Then a hospital clerk delivered an envelope addressed to me, with no return name and a photograph tucked beneath the flap.
The photograph showed a smiling girl beside a cardboard model of Saturn, her dark hair falling over a familiar red crescent.
