Fertility nurse became a mom at 48 through assisted reproduction

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Jennifer Michalke is 51 years old and has two toddlers.She used donor eggs to conceive both her daughters.People assumed she wouldn't have children because she married at 45...

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When I hit my 30s, I knew I wanted a family but didn't have a partner, so I focused on my work as a nurse, first in obstetrics and then at New York University's fertility clinic..

Using donor eggs, I could avoid those and give my children a better chance at characteristics I wish I had, like taller stature and blue eyes...

When Sadie was 1, we got a letter from our fertility clinic asking whether we wanted to pay the annual fee to store our five remaining embryos..

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