I was offered egg-freezing before beginning one of those "sterilizing" chemotherapy treatments. While it was great to have the option, the last thing I wanted to put my already dying body through was hormone therapy and surgery...

Years after treatment, I was in "menopause" and not a candidate for fertility treatment (fsh > 50 AMH = .17). My only hope was a donor egg.

My husband and I naturally conceived in July and our baby boy is coming in a few weeks.

I share this not because I think every woman can have babies, but because our science is still limited in understanding conception. There is a lot more to creating life than what we can "see" at the moment.