Why I'll Never Freeze My Eggs

Jessi Klein is 35, but not desperate
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 18, 2010 11:21 AM CDT
Why I'll Never Freeze My Eggs
"The one doomsday prediction I thought had kind of evaporated was the idea that after 35 the only baby you can create is the one you see when you pop your Ally McBeal episodes onto the DVD player."   (Shutter Stock)

Jessi Klein is 35 and childless, which meant it was time for that “horribly clichéd sad-woman moment” at her gynecologist’s office: The moment her doctor asked if she wanted some “literature” about freezing her eggs. At that moment, “I decided I didn’t want the literature. And I don’t ever want the literature about anything related to the world of Fertility. It’s my big thirty-fifth birthday present to myself,” Klein writes on the Daily Beast.

Klein has no desire to force her body “into doing something it may not naturally feel like doing,” she hates doctors’ offices, and she’d rather spend the money on something else—like adoption. “I don’t ever want to feel so desperate about having my biological child,” she concludes. “If I have one wish for this birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. And part of that is believing that if I’m meant to give birth, I will.”
(More fertility treatment stories.)

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