Financial and romantic stability is often considered a necessary condition for having a child. This journalist from The Economist decided to free itself from these constraints by storing its gametes. However, she discovers the difficulties of the course and the stress aroused by a child who is not yet born.
After her thirties, zapping on dating apps ended up disappointing this American journalist. “These mediocre dates were all the more painful because I was sure I wanted children.” Ready to raise one, alone, the idea of freezing her eggs gradually settles in her mind before imposing itself. In the pages of the British weekly The Economist, she recounts the almost decade that led her to give in to the sirens of cryopreservation.
Business is a way of “win time” while looking for a mate, she explains. Between two sessions of swipe on the applications of dating, she wants to have the feeling of always being in control of her future and of being able to look forward to her professional life with serenity. Faced with the lack of information regarding the operation, she mustered up her courage and went to a clinic in Washington.
In the waiting room […], there were many women my age, all of whom had a cloth shopping bag, flat shoes and blow-dry. When the secretary called ‘Amanda’ and several women looked up, I felt like I was in a twisted romantic comedy where we all wanted to thaw our eggs accompanied by Adam Sandler.”
After a consultation and a blood test, she ends up with an estimate for the intervention. At least $10,000…maybe more. “In this center where everything was going so fast, I had the impression of being in a factory of beings
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Great institution of the British press, The Economist, founded in 1843 by a Scottish hatter, is the bible for anyone interested in international affairs. Openly liberal, he generally defends free trade,
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