Should you tell your kid they were an accident"
When Yolanda Ng found out she was pregnant for the first time, she wasn?t living on the same continent as her boyfriend. Three weeks earlier, the Markham, Ont., native had moved to Hong Kong for work, leaving behind her boyfriend, friends and family. ?I had just started a new job and having a child wasn?t in the plan,? says the fashion designer who was 29 at the time. An unappetizing sushi dinner tipped her off that something was amiss. ?I looked at my best friend and said, ?I think I might be pregnant.?? The following day, Ng?s work was cancelled due to an approaching category-9 typhoon. Residents were given a five-hour warning before it was expected to hit. With that in mind, Ng picked up a pregnancy test in the hopes of calming her mind before the storm. But when two blue lines revealed that she was expecting, she was anything but calm. ?With my pants down, I literally ran out of the bathroom, holding myself up with the doorframe, crying my eyes out,? recalls Ng. Eight years later, that storm has become family folklore. ?My son has always known he was an accident because he has always heard the story like that,? says the mother of two. ?It?s always been this funny story in the family. It?s never been a big deal.? For Ng, it?s more than just a good story though. ?It?s important for him to know his origin.?
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