Chapter One: The Unyielding Desire

Chapter One: The Unyielding Desire

"Why can't I get pregnant? I've done everything. I followed my OB-GYN's advice, and still, nothing. What else am I missing?" My voice was a choked whisper, a desperate plea to the empty room.

Tears welled in my eyes, blurring my vision, and streamed down my face, hot and heavy against my skin. After years of trying, years of meticulously charting ovulation cycles and enduring the emotional rollercoaster of hope and disappointment, here I was—still not pregnant. Sometimes, in the dark hours of the night, I wondered if I was simply incapable of conceiving, a biological anomaly in reverse. But my OB-GYN, with her reassuring smile and clinical detachment, had repeatedly told me I had everything necessary, just like Dada and Fallon. So why wasn’t it happening? Why was my body failing me?