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When Belle Boggs was wrestling with the idea that she might never get pregnant, everything else around her seemed infinitely fertile — from the cicadas in her yard to the gorilla at the zoo. 

In "The Art of Waiting," Boggs shares her meditations on pregnancy, fertility and childlessness, confronting everything from the natural world to William Shakespeare to pop culture, and sharing stories of couples wrestling with and finding peace in their own reproductive realities and decisions.

Boggs joined MPR News host Kerri Miller to talk about her own experience with IVF. Dr. Jani Jensen, an infertility and reproductive endocrinology specialist at Mayo Clinic also added her perspective to the conversation.

For the full conversation on fertility and "The Art of Waiting," use the audio player above.

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Belle Boggs spent five difficult and painful years trying to get pregnant. In her new book, she shares what she learned about the longing and the business of trying to become a parent.

In the midst of Belle Boggs' efforts to get pregnant, she experienced a vivid ache so powerful that she called it "child longing," in her book, "The Art of Waiting."

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