The chapter recounts the narrator's first failed transfer during the IVF process, the trauma and panic it caused, and the confirmation of a negative blood test the next day. It also discusses the decision to stop taking progesterone, symbolizing the end of the cycle.
In our second episode of The Weekend Intelligence, The Economist correspondents Catherine Brahic and Sacha Nauta tell a different story about fertility treatment. A story about the pain, the hope and the despair that is paid for a life to be created. And a personal story about two women, over five years, whose lives followed parallel tracks in their quest for a baby.
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