The Infertility Cure
The Ancient Chinese Wellness Program for Getting Pregnant and Having Healthy Babies
Chapter One
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS INFERTILITY
It can be frightening, this yearning for a child-i t 's hard to fathom the
desperate urgency.
-WENDY WASSERSTEIN, AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT AND FIRST-TIME MOTHER AT AGE
FORTY-SIX, FROM CREATING A LIFE BY SYLVIA HEWETT
While the question "When does life begin?" has been debated throughout the ages,
one issue that is virtually undebatable is the intense desire of most women to
bear children. Young girls jump rope singing, "First comes love, then comes
marriage, then comes Mary with a baby carriage!" Maternal conditioning prepares
us to become mothers. Even girls who show no interest in babies or dolls while
growing up still assume they possess the capacity, if not the desire, to have
children.
However, when children become teenagers the focus shifts to not having babies
too soon. Most adolescents in the United States are well schooled in preventing
pregnancy through condoms, birth control pills, abstinence, and so on.
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