Doree Shafrir On The Out Of Control IVF Train

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

I talk with the writer about going through fertility treatments in her late 30s, and why being "on the IVF train" made her get more comfortable with situations out of her control.

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0:00.0	I think I had this misconception in my mid-30s when I started thinking that I did want to have kids.
0:07.3	I was like, oh well, it'll be fine.
0:09.7	Like, I'll just do IVF.
0:11.6	Like, if I have to, I'll just do IVF.
0:15.1	And as though that were, you know, this sure thing.
0:21.3	This is Death, Sex, and Money.
0:23.7	This show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:29.0	And need to talk about more.
0:31.4	I'm Anna Sale.
0:41.5	Writer Dorie Schifrier spent her 20s and 30s working her way up in journalism,
0:46.2	to impressive jobs at Rolling Stone and Buzzfeed.
0:49.6	But in a lot of ways, she felt left behind.
0:52.1	Like, adulthood wasn't clicking into place for her the way she'd expected.
0:57.6	She writes about this in a new memoir with an excellent title.
1:01.2	Thanks for waiting, the joy and weirdness of being a late bloomer.
1:05.9	I feel like I only really started thinking about that term in my mid to late 30s.
1:12.2	But I do feel like throughout my life there were certain things where I was like,
1:14.9	oh, I'm older.
1:16.6	Or like, I haven't done this thing yet that I feel like I should have done.
1:22.0	How much do you think was related to some idea of a biological clock?
1:28.8	I think it was somewhat related for sure.
1:33.7	But I think I thought about it less in terms of like, oh, my clock is ticking.
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