COURTESY OF AMY WRUBLE
‘AT LEAST YOU
HAVE ONE CHILD’
completely belong to any one category. They are not “infertile” in
the way that people struggling
to have a first baby are, and yet
there is some thing — often unknown — preventing them from
becoming parents again.
“You’re in this unique circumstance,” said Susan Allen, a licensed marriage and family therapist in California who focuses
on infertility and leads infertility
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“It’s not like I begrudge anyone
their children, but it’s hard not
to go to that dark place.”
support groups. “You’re hovering
between two worlds.”
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“I’ve had friends and family say
to me, ‘You should be grateful.
At least you have one child,”’
said Melissa Bouzek, a 31-yearold from Wisconsin who has an
Amy Wruble,
43, began
trying for a
second child
soon after
the birth
of her first,
knowing that
her fertility
window was
closing.