The Perfect Child

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of pregnancy loss, child abuse, bullying, graphic violence, animal cruelty, and mental illness (including reactive attachment disorder, postpartum depression, and psychosis).

Two months later and nine months after bringing Janie home for the first time, Hannah is at the doctor’s office suspecting that she might have early menopause. Instead, she finds out she is pregnant and is completely shocked. Hannah is initially certain that she will have a miscarriage, as that is what has happened to her every time before, but when she goes to her first ultrasound, she can’t deny how happy she feels at the thought of being a biological mother.

Piper is questioned about how she could have been unaware of Hannah’s pregnancy. She says that Hannah didn’t tell her and that she herself didn’t stop by Bauers’ house for several months. Once Hannah’s baby was born, Piper found out. She believes it wouldn’t have changed the outcome of anything if she had known, but privately she isn’t sure that’s true.