Joy and sorrow are close together in the fertility clinic. Nurses Regina and Inge offer a look behind the scenes

Hundreds of couples and single women with a desire to have children report annually to Nij Clinics, an independent fertility clinic with their own IVF laboratory. Nurses Inge van der Veen (51) and Regina de Vries (53) often guide wish parents there for a long time. “We are really building a band.”

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