Misconception: The Baby Boom
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Reporter Kristen V. Brown visits a fertility clinic to find out whether she can still have kids. And she explores the moment the fertility industry really exploded: when doctors realized they could sell egg freezing as a preventative service, not just as a medical treatment.
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| 0:34.9 | It would be weird to find out it wasn't possible. |
| 0:39.4 | I think that would mess with me a lot. |
| 0:43.7 | Anyways, time to get in the chair. |
| 0:50.3 | Yep. |
| 0:51.8 | This is me a year and a half ago, sitting with a cloth draped over my lap in a bright yellow |
| 0:57.9 | exam chair. I'm getting my fertility tested. So she just drew my blood. I'm feeling pretty nervous. |
| 1:08.2 | As a health reporter, I'd spent the last six months digging into the fertility industry, |
| 1:13.1 | so I knew that at 36, it was entirely possible that I was here too late, |
| 1:18.3 | that it was no longer possible for me to have kids. |
| 1:23.0 | My journey to this yellow exam chair had started with a breakup a few years earlier. |
| 1:27.9 | I was living with my boyfriend when he got a job in Colorado and moved there, without me. |
| 1:33.3 | So a few months later, when my OBGYN asked me if I planned to start a family, I didn't know how to answer. |
| 1:40.2 | It was February 2020, just a few weeks before I officially interred my mid-30s and I had just |
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