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It is undignified to inject yourself with hormones designed to slow or enhance ovarian production. It is undignified to have your ovaries monitored by transvaginal ultrasound; to be sedated so that your eggs can be aspirated into a needle; to have your husband emerge sheepishly from a locked room with the “sample” that will be combined with your eggs under supervision of an embryologist. The grainy photo they hand you on transfer day, of your eight-celled embryo (which does not look remotely lik
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― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
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Whose interest does egg freezing serve? The woman's or that of an ambitious, still pretty unforgiving culture that doesn't really ever see childbearing for female employees as convenient?
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― Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
― Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank












































