“It didn’t take,” she whispered to me.

She’d been trying for well over a year to get pregnant. I’d known since the earliest days that she was trying to start a family. “Why isn’t this working?” she asked. For her, it felt like defeat. She was bewildered and sad.

“Why is getting pregnant so much harder than I expected?”

This is such a tough place to be—t…

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