Jodi still remembers the fear that gripped her the day she learned she was pregnant. Hoping for reassurance, she went to a clinic to check for a heartbeat. Instead, she was told there was none. The staff instructed her to take abortion pills to “clean out” her body.

Shaken and trusting their words, Jodi took the first pill and went home.

Several days later, she found herself standing in a pharmacy aisle, gathering essential supplies in preparation for taking the second set of pills. But something deep inside her didn’t feel right. A quiet, persistent tug urged her to slow down and reconsider.

Following that instinct, Jodi got in her car and found the Abortion Pill Rescue Network, asking whether the medication she had taken could be reversed. They immediately connected her with help and arranged for progesterone in hopes of countering what Jodi feared might have been a grave mistake at the first clinic.

Later, she arrived at the hospital for an ultrasound that revealed what she had prayed to see: a baby, unmistakably alive, with a strong and steady heartbeat.

Weeks went by and Jodi welcomed her daughter—tiny, healthy, and perfect—into the world. Winter was born without any defects or complications, a thriving reminder of the second chance her mother had fought for.

Jodi often thinks about how close she came to losing her. “I can’t imagine my life without her,” she says. And she means it with every beat of Winter’s little heart.