'Conceivability' Follows One Woman's Journey Through The Global Fertility Industry
When Elizabeth Katkin and her husband decided to have children, it took nine years and involved multiple miscarriages and in vitro fertilization treatments. They eventually had two healthy children, but Katkin’s experience inspired her new book.
Katkin (@LizKatkin_books) joins Here & Now‘s Femi Oke to talk about “Conceivability: What I Learned Exploring the Frontiers of Fertility.”
Interview Highlights
On her efforts to become pregnant
“I definitely didn’t start out as a person who felt like, ‘Oh I have to have a baby no matter what.’ Part of what happened to me is that I did get pregnant, and things kept going wrong. And it was a little bit like a dog with a bone. I mean it was a science project for me: No one could explain why I couldn’t get pregnant easily. And more than that, no one could explain why I kept miscarrying. So each time I would get pregnant, and then I would miscarry, I would think, ‘Well I just got pregnant, I can do it
