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Index
Cover
Dedication
A Special Acknowledgment
Foreword by Dr. Nicole Noyes
Introduction
An Operator’s Manual
What You Never Learned
1. It Is Not as Easy to Get Pregnant as You May Think.
2. There Are Things About the Pill You Probably Have Not Considered.
3. Birth Control Is Not Actually ‘Control’; It Is Simply ‘Prevention’.
4. Your Gynecologist Is More Than Just a Pill-Pusher.
5. You Do Have a Biological Clock (and It ‘Is’ Ticking).
6. Guys Have a Biological Clock, Too.
7. Fertility Is Solely a Women’s Issue.
What You Need to Ask Yourself
1. How Old Is Too Old for Me?
2. Do I See Freezing My Eggs as an Insurance Policy—or a Gamble?
3. Am I Making This Choice out of Fear?
4. Am I Willing to Do the Whole Single Mom Thing?
5. Is Having Children ‘Really’ What I Want?
What You Need to Know About Egg Freezing
1. A Brief History of Egg Freezing
2. It Is a Manipulation of the First Half of Your Menstrual cycle.
3. Whatever You Do, Do Not Start This Process at an Egg Freeze Party.
4. The Younger, the Better.
5. It Is Eggspensive.
6. You Will Need to Embrace Your Inner Hen!
7. The Hormones May Make You, Well, a Tad Hormonal.
8. Egg Retrieval Is No Walk in the Park—It Is an Invasive Procedure.
9. All Good Things Have a Little Risk Attached.
10. You May Still Be Baby Crazy Afterward.
11. Sometimes You Do Not Get to Have Your Eggs and Hatch Them Too.
12. Fertilization Does Not Guarantee Success.
13. Sometimes You Will ‘Choose’ Not to Hatch Them.
What It’s Really Like
Moving Forward
1. We Need to Acknowledge ‘Why’ We Are Delaying Motherhood, so We Can Better Plan.
2. We Need to Get over the Idea That Motherhood Completes a Woman.
3. We Need to Challenge Our Healthcare System to Do Better.
4. We Need to Recognize That It’s a Man’s World—and Then We Need to Start Chipping Away at That, Stat.
What to Take with You
1. To the Gynecologist’s Office
2. To an Egg-Freezing Consultation
3. From This book—and My Twisty Turny Journey
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
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