The journeys people go on to have children are surprising, empowering, painful, beautiful, devastating, and enlightening. A woman who went through reciprocal IVF with her wife, a transgender man who gave birth to a child last year...

Why do you want to have kids? What kind of life do you want? What are your values? These questions may not have easy answers, but they’re an important part of trimester zero. This is the period before the start of any fertility journey...