Mom who lost 3 Daughters in Taconic Crash is Pregnant News Story

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What do you do when all three of your daughters are killed in horrific car crash and the driver evidently at fault happens to be your sister-in-law?

In the case of Jackie Hance and her husband, Warren, you have another child.

Nearly two years after her children died in a head-on collision that killed a total of eight people on the Taconic Parkway in Westchester County, N.Y., Hance is speaking out for the first time about her paralyzing grief and her current pregnancy with a first-person article in Ladies' Home Journal. The writer who collaborated with her on the story, Janice Kaplan, was in the studio to speak with TODAY's Matt Lauer on Wednesday.

The couple's decision to have another child was set into motion because a friend of a friend knew a fertility doctor in Manhattan who was familiar with how Hance lost her three daughters: Emma, 8, Alyson, 7, and Katie, 5. Following Katie's birth, Hance had her tubes tied, so she decided to undergo in vitro fertilization after being contacted by the doctor.

The couple's child is due this fall.

Message in a dream
"I'd had a dream that I was standing in heaven and I could see Emma, Alyson and Katie through these big gates,'' Hance writes in Ladies' Home Journal. "God would not let me inside the gates. He said that I had been given a gift from that doctor and I had to use his gift before I could be with my babies. So, almost in a daze, I told the doctor I wanted to try to get pregnant, never expecting it to work.

"I got pregnant the very first time.''

While the couple awaits their new baby, Jackie admits in the article that she is cautiously optimistic.

"I want to be excited, but I know how random life can be, and how unfair,'' she writes. "However much we try to protect our children, the worst can happen.''

Hance had two rounds of drug injections and egg retrieval, and the resulting embryos were frozen. She admits that even though she was undergoing the procedures, the thought of conceiving a child still seemed distant. Many of her friends had suggested to her that she and her husband have another child to give themselves a future, but it took time for that to sink in.

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[jmakobi]

Her blood alcohol level was .19% not .08%.  .08% is the legal limit.

[begood4000]

@jmakobi thanks for the correction

[RenegadeJuggler]

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[begood4000]

@RenegadeJuggler thanks a lot for you kind words.

[begood4000]

@Bronwardie your welcome. Thanks for liking it ;)

[raquelbeau]

how is he being misogynist? he is just trying to make the world aware of how terrible some people are. I know a couple narcissists, and they really do scare me. Most serial murders are narcissists. So I don't think he is being misogynist, he is an activist.

[godeau12]

Maybe misogynist is too strong a term for you.

I'm planning a cartoon about a girl who falls in love with a boy called SPITE.

When it's ready I'll invite you to watch..

[K2EME]

That happened in my neck on the woods. I remember that.