Internationally renowned obstetrician and gynecologist François Olivennes shares his most striking memories from an extraordinary career.

Every day, Professor François Olivennes gives hope to infertile women and couples, offering them a chance to become parents. This book relates some of the most memorable situations from his career, patients who've moved him with their originality, obstinacy, and amazing requests: a famous American actress asking for treatment in utter secrecy; a mother-in-law come to bribe him, unbeknownst to her sons, so that the elder donates his sperm instead of the younger; a fortysomething woman and her octogenarian husband come to assess their chances of having a child...
Above all else, what emerges is the strength of the "desire for a child" and the beauty, comedy, and joy of a difficult profession.