Chapter 5 Leslie squealed. Then cried. Then jumped up and hugged me. I felt the same way. Hers was the first one I’d done with a single embryo after multiple failures with more than one. I knew nothing was foolproof when it came to IVF, but it gave me hope that if it worked for Leslie, the same could work for Addi. Because she had the same problem. A little nausea. A touch of bleeding, like from implantation. Then pain and a rough period. It all fit with a successful attempt eliminated by an unsuccessful one. It wasn’t groundbreaking to attempt one at a time. Lots of women did and it still didn’t work. But it was the first time I’d done it in a patient as an experiment like this. Leslie cried and held on to me. A knock on the door had us breaking apart. Laura stuck her blonde head in

