Meet the Twiblings - NYTimes.com: Infertility feels like a death, but because it’s not the death of a person but the death of a hope — a fantasy about the children that our dead embryos might have become — that grief vanishes when you first hear the beating of real hearts.
Plan A faded into the background, and Plan B became foreground. I can count the ways Plan B is a less-desirable way to have children. But when you actually go there, the map shifts. The brain’s ability to rewrite the birth story and turn a barn into a manger is so powerful that Plan B became the best plan, because Plan B created the children that we have and are convinced we had to have.
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