This may be a difficult thing to articulate, but why did you want to have kids so badly?

Do you ever feel like there is more of yourself to give, more to love, more to explain.

And there's just this constant want and need to give more.

I have felt that since I met my husband.

When Anna Maria Galazzi met my husband.

When Anna Maria Galazzi met her husband, she says the topic of kids came up immediately.

On our very first date, we went to a Capitol's hockey game.

And our first conversation after the hockey game was, so do you want kids?

So we knew immediately, like, where we laid with kids, what we thought we wanted to parent like, how we wanted to raise them, what religion, like, all of that, we kind of fleshed out

on our first date.

How many kids did you and your husband think you wanted?

So he has always been like the perfect family is

2.5 kids. I'm like what is a 0.5 kid? Like what is that a dog? Like what is a 0.5 kid?

And I'm Italian Catholic. I wanted as many kids as my body would give me. Really? I was

ready to go to the distance. Six, seven, eight. Let's go for it.

Yeah, let's have a full hockey team.

Like, let's go.

Unfortunately, for Anna Maria, her dream of building a big family would prove much harder than she anticipated.

And in order to have kids at all, she'd need help from a multi-billion dollar fertility industry.

But that industry is almost entirely unregulated.

And as recent legal battles,

and an investigation by the Wall Street Journal show,

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