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Some couples feel guilt about not being able to give their child a sibling. Karen Licato had to hold back tears when her son J.R., now 11, got up in front of his first-grade class during a parents' observation day and told his classmates he had a brother. "Everyone else in class had a brother or a sister, and our son felt he had to say the same thing," says Licato, 44, a Plainfield, N.J., homemaker. "This broke my heart, and when we talked about it, J.R. and I sat down and had a really good cry afterward...
...Licato and her husband Jeffrey, 41, eventually conceived their second child, Tommy, 3, through in-vitro fertilization (IVF). But that can bring guilt of its own. Women who need to spend hours at the doctor's or have bed rest can't be the moms they want to be. And children may be worried by their mothers' going to the doctor so often. April Simanoff has explained to her daughter why she goes to the doctor so much, and she takes the child along on some appointments. "Sabrina is so used to my going to the doctor that she just...
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