Novelist (Little Stalker, Going Down) Jennifer Belle, 40, on suffering a miscarriage, followed by two successful pregnancies: "I was inconsolable over not having children. I wanted to be a mother very badly. It's going to sound dark, but I think there should be something between now and cancer." And! ""There's nothing more exciting in life than seeing that baby for the first time. But then it's like, 'Congratulations, now you're going to be exhausted and depressed and have career-financial suicide.'" [NY Times]

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