With all the media attention, many women tend to forget that unlike some renewable resources, their eggs do have a shelf life. Here's what to read as you consider: to wait or not to wait?






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Your Fertility: Suggested Reading

Not everything is sustainable. In "Business vs. Biology" (October), PINK asks, Should women climbing the corporate ladder put babies on their to-do lists? Want to learn even more? Here's a suggested reading list for women who want both a career and a baby (or two).

Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How They Made the Biggest Decision of Their Lives edited by Lori Leibovich (HarperCollins, 2007)

The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? by Leslie Bennetts (Voice, 2007)

Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families edited by Leslie Morgan Steiner (Random House, 2007)

Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey by Anne Taylor Fleming (Random House Value Publishing, 1996)

Hot Flashes, Warm Bottles: First-Time Mothers over Forty by Nancy London (Celestial Arts, 2001)

You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: The Diary of a New Mother by Judith Newman (Miramax Books, 2005)

Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother by Peggy Orenstein (Bloomsbury USA, 2007)

A Few Good Eggs: Two Chicks Dish on Overcoming the Insanity of Infertility by Julie Vargo and Maureen Regan (Regan Books, 2005)

Rewinding Your Biological Clock: Motherhood Late in Life – Options, Issues and Emotions by Richard J. Paulson, M.D., and Judith Sachs (W.H. Freeman & Co., 2000)

The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life – The Great Career, the Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted by Bonnie Fuller (Fireside, 2007)