Lott arrived six years after his parents began trying to conceive a child.

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Ms. MURRAY: No more than if I had--you know, when were trying to conceive, that I might conceive a child that might have some medical problems.

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After a religious takeover of the United States, the few women who can conceive a child (radiation has made most of them sterile) are given to high-ranking government officials to bear them children.

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Dr Johns believes that an optimistic frame of mind may lead to physical changes in the body that make it more likely that a woman will conceive a male child.

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Anecdotal evidence shows that some couples who initially struggle to conceive and have a child by IVF or adoption, later fall pregnant naturally - possibly because the stress of the situation has been lifted.

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Although the toddler will not be able to conceive naturally, she could carry a child created from a donated egg.

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