At 38, I didn't want to waste time trying to get pregnant. Our employers' fertility benefits let us skip straight to IVF.
A woman shares her personal experience choosing IVF at age 38, highlighting how employer-provided fertility benefits influenced her family planning decisions. She discusses the emotional and physical challenges of the process, including the initial hesitation and the proactive nature of their choice.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing importance of corporate fertility benefits in supporting employees' reproductive health and family-building choices.
The author said knowing that she and her husband could take advantage of the fertility benefits they both receive through work helped them make their choice about how they wanted to grow their family. Courtesy of Jacki Ochoa. When I was 38, my husband and I decided to pursue IVF treatment to get pregnant, as a first step. We don't have any known fertility issues, but we didn't want to spend time trying to conceive. Fortunately, our employers offer fertility benefits, making our decision much easier. It was just my husband and me at our kitchen table. All of the IVF supplies were out. Somehow, there were too many instructions, but also not enough. How do we know we're mixing the medicine correctly? What if there's an air bubble in the needle? What if there's a really big air bubble?
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