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I was eight months pregnant with our miracle IVF baby when my own father shoved me down a flight of granite stairs because I refused to give my seat to my sister, who'd just had a cosmetic tummy tuck. As I lay bleeding and begging someone to save my baby, my mother screamed, “Stop faking it! You're embarrassing this family!” But when the doctors finally examined me, they discovered something that would turn my parents' cruelty into a nightmare they could never escape.