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The parents of a son who was diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic disease discuss having a second child using IVF. They talk about the process of being approved through insurance and the testing they had done on the embryos to ensure that their next child wouldn’t have the same mutation. 

The parents of two sons, the first of whom was diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic condition, discuss what it was like when their second son was born. They talk about the tension between their grief and their joy and the ways that their youngest son has helped them through their bereavement. 

The parents of two sons, the first of whom was diagnosed with a very rare genetic disease, discuss naming both their boys and how they honored their first son Quinlan by naming their second son, August after the month Quinlan was born. 

A couple discusses their different responses to learning that their first son had a rare genetic condition. The father addresses his internal conflict with how he felt he was expected to react as a man.