Over two decades of practice, I have sat with hundreds of…

Over two decades of practice, I have sat with hundreds of couples through their fertility journeys. But there is one story that has stayed with me more than most, and I think about it often. A young woman came to me years after having had a termination early in her life, at a time when she had very little information or guidance around it. Later, when she and her partner tried to conceive, they struggled. What struck me most was not the medical difficulty itself. All her tests came back normal. It was the guilt she carried, quietly, for years. A decision made with limited knowledge at a younger age had become, in her mind, the r