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April Gore wants to be a mother. She just doesn’t know when. But once she’s ready, the 28-year-old wants to carry her own child into this world.
For years, Gore, an aspiring medical student who lives in Langley, B.C., feared she’d never experience what it’s like to be pregnant, to lose sleep caring for her newborn baby, to watch him or her grow. It’s an increasingly common worry for women in their 20s and 30s who are unsure when they’ll be ready – psychologically, financially or otherwise – to become parents. In Gore’s case, the anxiety was amplified by cysts that cost her one ovary and threatened to destroy the other.
She took matters into her own hands. Last year, Gore underwent weeks of hormone injections and two surgeries to harvest a dozen mature oocytes, or eggs, and paid to have them specially frozen. They’ll remain that way until she decides to use them. “Now that I have this safety net, I’m going to go pursue my dreams,” she said, noting that travelling and then attending medical school...