For more than a year, Shoshana Weinberg had tried different ways to get pregnant - from drinking raspberry tea to consuming an alkaline diet (and having precisely timed sex, of course) - but nothing worked. Then, one day, through a friend, she heard about Dana Amelia, a centenarian healer living in a small Mexican village on the border with Belize. Weinberg, then 33 and working as a spa consultant in Mexico, paid a visit to Amelia. The elder woman massaged Weinberg's abdomen using a traditional Maya technique that had been passed down through her family. At the end of the treatment, she tells Weinberg: "This month...
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