The way in which the unborn baby intervenes in the story, with consciousness and emotions, being the center of the discussion and yet without the right to an opinion makes us focus on the selfishness present in all couple relationships where children are involved; we see it all the time, children's right to a certain lifestyle or to life itself does not depend on them, and instead, they often become collateral damage. The most interesting thing is that we do it from the unsuspected perspective of the unborn child.
When this cosmic consciousness that is the possible soul of the child lifts out of her and goes back either to its origin or to nothingness, the green and blue that we observe as it rises reminds me of Woolf's "Blue & Green": The change of light (in Woolf's story), which makes the narrator see a different reality, although only in appearance, is equivalent to the change of perspective (in your story) in which we participate as readers, producing mise en abyme that I personally found very enlightening and touching; in the end, we can see the great wide open through the baby's eyes.
Thank you for a remarkable story, @cliffagreen. I enjoyed it a lot :)
Thank you for your wonderful comment. I like Woolf (at least Mrs. Dalloway); I don't know if I've read "Blue & Green".