Millions of people living in the United State struggle with infertility, a problem that’s launched a multi-billion dollar industry offering treatments from drugs to aromatherapy. Among them, freelance writer Cindy Bailey and her husband Pierre Giauque, whose project, The Fertile Kitchen Cookbook, appeared on bookstore shelves this month. The couple wanted a child, but doctors gave Cindy an unlikely chance of conceiving, even with the aid of modern and traditional remedies.
After all, they had met later in life, married when Cindy was in her late 30s, and subsequently found that the deck was stacked against them—a woman’s fertility generally declines sharply at 35, not 40 as Cindy originally thought.
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