I want to tell her that the physical wounds of child bearing will heal, but becoming a mother will leave her with an emotional wound so raw that she will be vulnerable forever.
Either way, this will be a Christmas like no other with hundreds of thousands of lives lost across Europe celebrations will be scarred by the lost of life and the reality that the COVID pandemic remains far from over.
It's...this idea that there is a beauty in ageing, it's to be celebrated rather than trying to disguise it, or trying to cover up the scars instead you gild them with kintsugi.
Her legs were badly scarred and infected, she was malnourished, she had never gone to school and she had spent most of her life confined to this small, dark room.