Sun already had a daughter and to keep it, she would have to pay a fine of more than 200,000 yuan ($31,250) under China’s strict family planning laws. She thought it was too much money.

She terminated the pregnancy within two months.

“I didn’t know if it was a girl or a boy. Had I known, I would have struggled to make a decision.”

Two months later, China announced the end of the controversial one-child policy and said it was instead encouraging all couples to have two children.

This new policy will come into effect on January 1, 2016. All second babies born on this date and after will be “legal,” according to state media.

Sun’s baby would have been born in Spring.