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Like many people of her generation, Miriam Zoll wanted to wait to have kids. She had seen headlines about 45-year-old women having their first children through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and thought it would be fine for her to wait too.
But when she was 42 and ready to try and have a baby, it didn't work out that way. She and her husband tried for seven years and went through four IVF procedures, hoping technology could defy the biological limitations of her body.
"I surrendered everything to the science and to the doctors thinking that they would be able to pull the rabbit out of the hat," Zoll told Tech Insider.
It was for Zoll a hard realization that the old rules of childbirth still apply. She and her husband turned instead to an millennia-old option: They adopted a son, now 6.
In coming decades, however, accelerating innovation in technology will bring us into a new era in childbirth with profound effects on society. Tech Insider spoke to more than a dozen experts to understand what's coming next.
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