ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on why women in the aid sector delay pregnancy and the challenges of infertility. Delaying is understandable, particularly as the mid-30s tends to be the time when an aid worker has accumulated real experience and starts accessing interesting expert and management roles. A cycle of IVF takes months to plan, multiple visits for retrieval and implantation. It requires regular and frequent access to a clinic. Including costs, considerations include proximity of location, quality of services, number of eggs that can be fertilised, sperm donation laws, age at which fertility treatments can be done, as well as marital status, sex, gender, and sexual orientation. Success rates of clinics get distorted, which can make it enticing to visit the one that has a higher success rate, no matter how that success has been achieved.
