Content warning: We will be discussing infertility and IVF during this episode. If those topics are sensitive for you right now, we totally understand. Feel free to skip this week’s episode. Take care of yourselves, first and foremost.
When Sami Jacobson decided to start trying to have a baby, she was 33, and, anxieties assuaged by a doctor friend, she figured, “it’ll just happen.” But then… it didn’t.
Now, at 37, she and her husband are in the middle of one of the least-discussed fertility interventions — something that New York Magazine termed “the last fertility taboo” back in April: egg donor-assisted IVF.
According to the CDC, about 12 percent of all IVF cycles in the U.S. involve donor eggs. For the uninitiated, this means that eggs are retrieved from the donor (the same process as egg freezing) and fertilized with sperm to create embryos, which are then transferred to the expectant parent or gestational carrier’s uterus. It seems inevitabl…
