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People think about IVF as this sure thing, and it's not a sure thing.
And that kind of topples people over when they're like, well, I was banking on IVF.
Yeah.
People talk about it as a type of insurance policy, but it's really not.
A guarantee.
Yeah.
And it's not even necessarily the best choice for everyone trying to start a family.
Just listen to reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Lucky Seacon.
She's who we featured in our first story on how to get pregnant.
There's a whole swath of women in my generation that feel blindsided
and that feel they didn't have all of the correct information.
And maybe with the advent of egg freezing and all this chatter and headlines about IVF.
They actually had an overconfidence in how much science can overcome.
And I see that every day.