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Finding your way to the family you want

Divorced at 32 and single at 37, I opted for an experimental insurance policy

My frozen eggs did not give me a child, but they did help me find my soul mate

For 22 months, our embryo had been stored at a Manhattan fertility clinic as we raised our then 1-year-old twins and their 3-year-old brother in Brooklyn. But our insurance was about to change, increasing the cost of storage prohibitively. So we decided the time had come to remove it from its suspended state.

For those who wish to create a family with biological children, but are unable to do so on their own, opening up to other approaches, such as using a sperm or egg donor, can require a lot of mental and emotional work.