Infertility

May 10, 2024

A Shattering Secret on the Path to Motherhood

My doctor asked a routine question that led to a marital crisis. “Has your husband ever gotten anyone pregnant before?” my doctor asked. We were trying […]
April 8, 2023

To Freeze Their Eggs, Some Women Travel for a Better Deal and a Vacation

Faced with the high cost of egg-freezing in their home countries, some women are going abroad for a better deal, and a vacation. It’s hardly uncommon […]
April 2, 2022

How the Covid Pandemic Created a Surrogate Shortage in the U.S.

Charlie Lee and his husband want to have a baby. But they are facing a major hurdle: They have 12 viable embryos, but no one to […]
July 22, 2020

The Fight for Fertility Equality

While plenty of New Yorkers have formed families by gestational surrogacy, they almost certainly worked with carriers living elsewhere. Because until early April, paying a surrogate […]
October 28, 2016

Modern Love: My Biological Clock Can’t Tick Fast Enough

Modern Love By SARI BOTTON I wasn’t lying when I told my first husband I was leaving in large part because he was ready for a […]