It’s 1.24pm on a Friday afternoon and Trish Moodley is trying to make a baby,
while I watch. The scene is not completely unromantic: the lights in the
room are dim, out of a radio on a high shelf Madonna sings Get into the
Groove, and I shuffle close to Moodley, an embryologist, as she sits at
a microscope. With a squeeze of a trigger, Moodley shoots a sperm into an
egg. This is what few ever get to see: human life in its first seconds. Even
the parents are miles away, anxiously waiting by the phone. I am awestruck.
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