“Why I’m Having My First Baby At 51”
- It wasn’t so much the eleventh hour as five to midnight. We had two
- embryos left in the freezer of a fertility clinic and, by March, I’d be
- too old to receive them. With two miscarriages and four previous
- attempts at IVF embryo transfers, it felt like a futile mission,
- but in February, my partner, Pete, and I decided to give the
- dice one last roll.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/09/
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“The Feminist Fertility Myth: Why Do Women Believe They Can Delay Children For So Long?”
- Judith Shulevitz’s excellent and disturbing meditation
- on older parents in the New Republic raises the question
- of whether fertility treatments and other technologies
- extending women’s procreative years should be regarded
- as an unmitigated “feminist triumph.”