Alex Johnston: What No One Tells Women About Fertility Until It's Too Late

Alex Johnston spent six years trying to build a family: three and a half years of fertility treatment, two surrogacies, and a daughter who was stillborn, before ending up with three children in fifteen months. She walks through what the process actually involves - the cost, the limits of the technology, the strain on a marriage, and what the relationship with a surrogate is really like - and why most of what people believe about getting pregnant in their late thirties comes from magazine covers rather than facts. She also argues for routine fertility testing from the late twenties on, and for insurance and government policy that treats family building as health care.

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