I Desperately Want a Baby. What I Need to Do to Get One Can Take Me to a Dark Place.

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A year into trying for Baby No. 2, I sat on the couch, bloated, at the end of my follicular phase. My husband stepped into the glow of the television, a gentle, almost apologetic look on his face.