Late Bloomers

by Jenilyn Gilbert

holding_seedlingSeems I live in the most fertile house in history.  Everything about this house is fertile and that’s partly why this house was so appealing to buy.   Eight children and two parents lived here before we bought it last summer.  Later I learned that the mother was expecting her ninth baby.

The neighbors joke, “Don’t drink the water in that house!” I was drinking water by the gallons, are you kidding me?  Although normally I’m pretty conscious of drinking only filtered water, I started drinking straight from the tap as well as offering it to all of my fertility clients. […]