After 12 years of dating and one year of marriage, high-school sweethearts Samuel and Penelope started trying to conceive. Both grew up in tight-knit families, and had long dreamed of having biological children together.
But when a year passed without a positive pregnancy test, the couple — who asked to use pseudonyms because they haven’t even told some relatives about their fertility experience — asked doctors what was going on.
“We were looking at everything,” Penelope told The Post. “They did all of this blood work, and nothing came up.”
Eventually, Samuel was diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome, a common genetic condition in which male babies are born with an extra copy of the X chromosome. While it can cause physical symptoms like smaller testicles, in many cases like Samuel’s, people don’t realize they have it until they’re adults — if they find out at all.
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