Moya Sarner and her boyfriend both know they want children - just not yet. Should she join the growing number of women in their 20s considering egg freezing?
I am sitting in a fertility clinic, looking at a wall covered in baby photos. These are babies born with the help of the consultant I am about to meet. As I wait, I wonder if the pictures provoke pain or hope in women who have sat on this same leather sofa. I can’t know that agony – I don’t think anyone can until they experience it – but I am afraid of it. I am 29, my boyfriend and I are not trying to conceive a child, and we have no fertility problems that we’re aware of. So why am I here?
It all started earlier this year, when my partner and I were enjoying a lazy Sunday evening in our flat. I was hanging up my washing, and as I shook my jeans to get the creases out, he said, “I would like to have a child. But can we wait until we’re 40?” I laughed, but he wasn’t joking.
Apple and Facebook now offer to pay for female employees to freeze their eggs, as part of their benefits package
'I spent so much time and anxiety freaking out in my early 30s. This cultural baby panic is not helping women'
Perhaps one day this will be the norm, the cost absorbed into a young woman's life like tuition fees, or driving lessons
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