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Chapter 2: Towards the Light
Erika’s journey to achieve her childhood dream of becoming a mother was littered with heartache.
Chapter 3: Desperately Seeking Daddy
Halfway through her second round of IVF, Gayle’s partner walked out on her, leaving her at the age of 40, single and desperate for a family. Determined not to compromise her dreams, Gayle decided if technology could help her have a baby, it could help her find a partner as well.
Chapter 4: Double Life
Two husbands, two vasectomies, two rounds of IVF and twins – welcome to Lauren’s double life.
Chapter 5: Defying Mother Nature
Smugly pregnant with twins on her first round of IVF, Trisha’s dream-run turned nightmarish after losing one twin and giving birth to a severely premature daughter. She then embarked on no less than ten consecutive attempts to have a second child.
Chapter 6: From Serbia with Love
Her endless quest for a child lead Anita and her husband back to their parents’ homeland in Serbia and a cathedral renowned for its miracles. It was there a chance meeting turned her husband from an IVF skeptic into a keen participant.
Chapter 7: Ugly Brown Eggs
Ada and her childhood sweetheart married young. They took her uncle’s advice and delayed having a family and instead bought a house with the biggest mortgage they could handle. Fourteen years later they were financially set to start a family, but their DNA wasn’t and time was running out.
Chapter 8: Sometimes it Takes Three
After yet another miscarriage, Caroline awoke in the middle of the night crying, ‘If I can ‘t have children, what will I do with all this love inside me?’ The next day her husband bought her a labra-doodle pup. But it was the gift from an egg donor, which helped fill the void.
Chapter 9: The Gift of Giving
An impulsive decision to donate her eggs to a stranger turned out to be the best thing for Cath, her existing family and her new one.
Chapter 10: Sister Versus Sister
When her niece agreed to donate her eggs to Sandra, neither could predict how the decision would rip apart their once tightly-knit family.
Chapter 11: Test Tube Grownup
One of the first 100 IVF babies in the world, Rebecca was ‘made’ at the historic Bourn Hall, Cambridge in 1983. Now living in Australia, this remarkable young woman has been one of the leading forces in starting a support group for other adult offspring of those early IVF pioneers.
Chapter 12: Too Little, Too Late
A career can be very satisfying but it can’t hug you back, so discovered Di and Don, the hard way.
Chapter 13: Father Pride
The brave new world of IVF, on-line egg donors and commercial surrogacy has made it possible for gay couples to also satisfy their baby hunger. David and Jason take the road less traveled to parenthood.
Chapter 14: Single Minded
What happens when Mr. Right fails to show up? Does a girl give up her dreams of motherhood as well? An independent career woman teams up with a philosophical gay man and together with IVF technology forge a new vision of family.
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