Miracle Babies

"You're going to be the grandma in the park," a distant aunt said when she heard I was pregnant again. "Oh, was it an accident?" a neighbor questioned, looking at the ground sadly. They didn't know. They didn't know about the three back-to-back miscarriages, about the rows and rows of fertility medications...

The Rebbe himself had no children, yet he gave so many people blessings for children. Who are the Rebbe's children?

There I was again, in the familiar corridor at the Bikur Cholim hospital in Jerusalem. But this time I had two healthy children at home, which gave me hope that maybe, just maybe, there would be good news...

We saw more doctors and underwent more invasive tests, all with the same conclusion: IVF was our only option...

People said that, given our disabilities, we'd be irresponsible if we went ahead and had a baby.

Why are infertile women such a central theme of the High Holidays? Because there are few people in the world who will ever pray with the intensity of a woman who yearns for a child...