When Your Dreams of Motherhood Are Destroyed

When Your Dreams of Motherhood Are Destroyed

Inside a small closet under the stairs in Rachel Mehl’s impeccably decorated two-story home in Pittsburgh sits a steel-gray garbage bag knotted at the top to conceal an infant bouncy chair that features pastel drawings and bits of well-known nursery rhymes: “Humpty Dumpty,”“Little Boy Blue,” “Hickory Dickory Dock.” 

What is the difference between conventional egg freezing and “minimal stimulation” egg freezing?

 What is the difference between conventional egg freezing and “minimal stimulation” egg freezing?

Did you know that some women who freeze their eggs don’t give themselves any injections at all? Learn what makes a woman a good candidate for minimal stimulation egg freezing.

At 35, I Went to a Millennial Egg-Freezing Clinic—And Now I’m Rethinking My Future

At 35, I Went to a Millennial Egg-Freezing Clinic—And Now I’m Rethinking My Future

Here’s something I didn’t expect to do the morning after my 35th birthday: squint at a fuzzed-out screen and count the follicles inside my ovaries.