Kanan would have settled for simple addition. Everyone else seemed to be pregnant. I should have been happy for her. Her natural apparatus was broken. She was ready to give her body to science.
Infertility comes with no quick fix.
Evaluation alone can take several months, and there are no guarantees that the treatment will work. It is believed that only 15 percent to 30 percent of couples without fertility problems become pregnant in one menstrual cycle. But among fertile couples who have frequent sexual intercourse without contraception, three out of four will become pregnant within six months. Infertility may stem from a reproductive abnormality in the man, the woman, or both. Fifty percent to 70 percent of the time, the woman is the infertile partner.