WEEKS AFTER HER doctor told her she had miscarried, Terilynn Nash still felt pregnant. Unmoved, her doctor told her the symptoms she was describing would go away.

But Nash refused to leave the office without taking a pregnancy hormone test. “I felt like something was wrong,” she said.

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Helena Getahun-Hawkins is an intern at Bay City News through Stanford’s Rebele Fellowship. She’s a rising junior at Stanford majoring in International Relations and minoring in Spanish. She writes for The Stanford Daily under the campus life desk and was most recently managing editor of the Daily’s podcast section. She enjoys covering stories that center around education policy, immigration policy, and identity. Outside of journalism she enjoys drawing, yoga, listening to music, and watching TV.