Starting a family looks different for everyone.
She is the inspiration behind this book..
But thanks to the science of IVF, Bess and her husband Jordan welcomed their child, Lily, to the world.
After many failed attempts, she thought it would never happen.
Author and illustrator, Bess Gutter, went through three difficult years of infertility.
Beginning as a tiny dot of cells on a screen, the dot grows and grows, from a bean to a sprout, and eventually, to a baby.
This story shares the experience of a family that came to be because of IVF.
Starting a family looks different for everyone