By Sarah Gantz
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pregnancy was not the dreamy nine months that Sherell Robinson had hoped for. Shortly after finding out she was expecting last October, she quit her teaching job because of an underlying heart condition and, by the end of the year, she was getting divorced.
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