IVF: Suzanne's Story

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Each year, more than 100,000 women use some form of doctor-assisted artificial insemination to try to get pregnant. Suzanne is one of these women. She's single, in her mid-40s, and has been trying for two years to get pregnant using a variety of methods. Team Long Haul follows Suzanne through her last in vitro fertilization attempt – her last chance to have her own biological child – and documents the story of how she got to this point. We continued to follow Suzanne after this broadcast; her story continues in "Dear Birth Mother." (Produced in 2004; this description is from the original broadcast.)