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Why I'm Not Freezing My Eggs

Why I'm Not Freezing My Eggs

And why we need to talk about sperm.

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Paige Elkington
Feb 05, 2025
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As a childless woman in my mid-30s, people reasonably ask if I want kids. But a question that feels even more charged, and one that other single childless women seem desperate to talk about without ever really saying shamelessly, is: “Are you freezing your eggs?” I want a family, badly, but it always surprises people when I tell them I haven’t even seri…

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