According to world statistics, at least 10 %, at a maximum of 20 % of the Earth's residents suffer from infertility. The problem is serious, but it is not customary to talk about it out loud even among very close people. We tell the stories of two women - Muscovites Ani and Kiev Katya, who at different ages learned that they could not have children. Each in their own way copes with this, and both did not discuss it with their husbands. Anya removed the ovaries, Katya had two miscarriages.