Huffington Magazine Issue 78 | Page 54

‘AT LEAST YOU HAVE ONE CHILD’ that more than 3 million women of childbearing age in the U.S. who have one biological child have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying another to term. And roughly 800,000 married women with one child are unable to get pregnant again after one year of having unprotected sex, month after month, according to NCHS data. But while infertility has slowly gained recognition as a common and emotionally devastating condition, secondary infertility has remained in the shadows, leaving many of the women and couples who face it feeling utterly alone. STUCK, WITHOUT ANSWERS Why some women who have alre