الأربعاء، 24 فبراير 2021

For those who want children, Covid has intensified the 'panic years' | Nell Frizzell

The pandemic has put everyone’s life out of sync but for some in their 30s, the turmoil has added complications

How have you measured out the last year of your life? In the number of binged TV series? Walks in the park? Or perhaps, by the number of periods, injections to your hormone-rounded rump or the hopeful swipes on dating apps?

For some the past 12 months have put a pause on one of the few decisions in our lives that has a biological deadline: should you have a baby? And if so, how, where, when and with whom? It is a question that smacks into us like a train at the beginning of what I call “the panic years”, a period of turmoil in your 30s, during which all decisions about love, work, friendship or where to live are given a special sense of urgency by the fact that you can mark your declining fertility with each monthly cycle.

Related: ‘It feels like a lost year’: the women who fear 2020 has stolen their chance of motherhood

Nell Frizzell is the author of The Panic Years, out now through Bantam Press

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