"It's a girl! "
The doctor gushed, placing the wailing infant on the woman's chest.

She heaved trying to catch her breath in the aftermath of her gruelling labour.

Tears of pain mingled briefly with tears of joy before dissolving into tears of sadness.

She had once again given birth to a girl! Her third daughter.

What would her husband and in-laws do to her now?

What judgement she would face... She was only prepared of half of their reaction.

Her husband took it easy after the birth of their second daughter, but warned her sternly as if she was in control of his sperm and her eggs.

"Don't disappoint me the third time, I don't know what I'll do if there is a next time! "

The words kept ringing in as she stared at her daughter's private organ and wept incessantly.

The room had gone silent as they all watched her bawl her eyes out.

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