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The price of eggs

This Is Uncomfortable

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The Importance of Hormones in Fertility

Ashley's fertility clinic flew her from Washington to California for the procedure. The hormones she'd been injecting in her stomach would stimulate her ovaries to create multiple eggs. Once it was time to retrieve them, doctors would insert a thick needle through her vaginal tissues and then suction the eggs from her ovaries.

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