Please Stay, Baby. Please?
The grief of miscarriage is largely invisible. And with each loss, the longing multiplies.
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Fertility Clinic Errors Collide With a Redefinition of ‘Personhood’
The clinics are routinely sued by patients for errors that destroy embryos, as happened in Alabama. An effort to define them legally as “unborn children” has raised the stakes.
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Seeking a Family, They Got More Than They Bargained For
After multiple cycles of I.V.F. and donor eggs, doctors told Andres and Karen Castaño — who married in 2019 — that they would be having triplets.
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The Quiet Luxury of South Korea’s Postpartum Care Centers
Some new mothers say postpartum care centers are the best part of childbirth in South Korea, where fewer people are deciding to have children because of high costs.