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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Diana Nguyen

From hormone injections at a K-pop concert to a ‘spread of endo’, freezing my eggs has been a journey

A tube of eggs in a cryogenic storage chamber
‘My future babies, frozen. Let it go,’ writes Diana Nguyen. Photograph: Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF

My fertility journey has been with me since I held my first little sister in my arms. I am a proud aunty to two little ones, my sunshines, and a godmother to three kids. In my 2002 high school yearbook I wrote that in 10 years’ time I wanted “to be married and having lots of kids. 10 sounds good enough. He he he.” Direct quote. I was obsessed with becoming a mother.

After a relationship ended in early 2019, I decided to think seriously about freezing my eggs. I was 34 years old. I went to a fertility clinic and found out my egg levels were “above average”.

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