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So if you wanna have a bunch of kids gotta do it in your 20s or marry/find someone much younger than you. Used to be true just for men but turns out it’s true for women too.

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Or just wait a few years to be over 40 and then magically the chance of making a baby together becomes better according to the article.

You can also bank some reproductive tissue. It's roughly $1300 for collection, shipment, and 5 years of storage.

I'm familiar with and can recommend Reprotech [1], but any reputable firm will do. You can even establish a trust to manage your tissue beyond death.

(all of this is moot if non-reproductive specific cells can be coaxed into healthy reproductive tissue in the future [2])

[1] https://www.reprotech.com/

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/14/scientists-c...

It's a lot easier to work around poor male fertility than poor female fertility. IUI is often enough, IVF has a high success rate if the sperm is the only problem (they can do some extremely invasive procedures to force the sperm DNA into an egg)

...or at the end of the day, donor sperm is an easy option.

It takes probably almost 5-6 figures for *IVF* fertility treatment regardless.

*edit

IUI is not terribly expensive, $1k-$4k, it's not until you get to IVF the dollars start racking up (although in some US states, insurance covers the cost of a few rounds of IVF).

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/insurance-coverage-for-...

It's not 6 unless you do many rounds of IVF or surrogacy. A round of IVF is on the order of $20k (retrieval and 1-2 implantation attempts).

IUI is not expensive — less than $1k. It's a high-touch turkey baster, with some cleaning and counting in-between.

Donor sperm is not expensive. Maybe $1k if you go through a formal process.

What doesn't cost that much in the US of A medical world?

Donor sperm is a good option if you don’t mind raising a child that’s not yours.

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