"For most of my life, motherhood was never something that called to me. It didn't live in my imagination in the way it seemed to for others," writes Juntos content director Johanna Ferreira.
But as time passed, Johanna found herself thinking more and more about her options. "When I was 28, I ended an almost 10-year relationship, and it was the first time in my life that I started to honestly ask myself if motherhood was something I actually wanted to do or something I felt I had to be open to in order to attract and keep a man."
Still, she wasn't too concerned about declining fertility. "Everyone around me convinced me that I'd be 'fine.' 'Latinas are naturally fertile,' I'd hear," Johanna writes.
Then at 39, she decided to put the cultural assumptions aside, look into her fertility risks, and freeze her eggs. Her take now: "Egg freezing is by no means baby insurance, but it's an option, and one I'm going to start advocating for more women like me to have."
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