Here's What It's Really Like to Freeze Your Eggs

I'm 31 years old, recently married, and on the fence about ever having children. I've never been completely against it, but I've also never felt as though I'm "running out of time" or that my life is or would somehow be unfulfilled if I ended up never having kids. For some reason, a woman saying that out loud seems to offend more than when someone straight-up asks her, "When are you going to have kids already?" But I digress.

I recently expressed my thoughts on having kids to a friend, and her response was, "You'll probably want to go off and freeze some eggs then, just in case." I was surprised by her nonchalance in saying that, as though freezing your eggs is as easy-breezy as stopping into the nail salon for a manicure, only instead you're popping into the doctor's office to quickly pluck some eggs out.

Spoiler alert: it's not that easy. Freezing your eggs is actually more invasive than most people think, it's time-consuming, and it is most definitely not cheap. But these are all things...