If you asked my 25-year-old self about fertility, I would have given you a blank stare."Oh, the
With any other free time I had , I was bouncing between my a cappella group and high-school chorus. I'm exhausted just thinking about these activities, yet I know that many teenagers shared the same experience. We fiercely believed:"If you can dream it, you can achieve it."Needless to say, my hormones couldn't have been further from my mind except when I let that existential thought of getting pregnant one day creep into my mind.
Cut to 2016, and I'm meeting Afton Vechery for the first time. She and I met for coffee to talk about a business idea. That's when she started using words like"fertility" and — my least favorite at the time —"family planning." Check, please. Despite having a lovely conversation, the baby stuff was"not my thing.