[EXCERPT] The Art of Waiting: "Baby Fever"

Belle Boggs's memoir, The Art of Waiting, sets her own struggles with infertility within a larger framework of sociological, cultural (both historic and present-day), biological, and literary attitudes toward reproduction and motherhood. In this excerpt she explores "Baby Fever," the "delirious, aching sickness" to have a child that sent many of us on our infertility and adoption journeys.