Infertility

Emotional, physical, financial toll can be devastating

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 29th, 2004

Some girls grew up laying wet kisses onto the chubby plastic cheeks of their baby dolls or confiding in their best friends about whom they some day would marry and how many children they would have.

As adults, some pursued careers, others married, and many did both, dreaming of the day when the strip in the pregnancy test gave the right answer and less than 9 months to prepare.

They're the 6.1 million women in the United States who assumed they would conceive and give birth someday because, after all, it's what most people do. But it's a devastating blow - physically, financially, and emotionally - to find out they, or their partner, are...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-01-29)

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