This is a witty, heartfelt memoir about facing the future single - and contemplating every conceivable way to conceive without a man by your side. At 31, freelance journalist Rachel Lehmann-Haupt thought she had everything: the perfect relationship with the perfect man and an independent career that let her travel around the world. All that remained was to get married and have children. But one year later, the relationship ended and she was starting over, consumed by a rapidly approaching deadline: her thirty-fifth birthday, the dividing line between a regular and a 'high risk' pregnancy that Ob-Gyns stamp as 'Advanced Maternal Age'. She began to consider her future as a wife and mother as she faced the pressure to find true love on the edge of her fertility. The age of first-time motherhood is rising all over the world, especially in urban centers. Women are waiting until they are in the right relationship, on the right career track, and more economically stable to start a family. In a journey from her own community in New York City to India to Texas, Lehmann-Haupt tells of her search for love and family and how it is shaped by the people that she meets along the way: bible belt 'Single Mothers By Choice', a Harvard MBA who started an egg freezing company, open identity sperm donors, and fashion model egg donors. She dates, falls in love, meets cutting edge scientists, and chronicles her own experience freezing her eggs. All these episodes influence her ideas about the impact of reproductive technology and the ways to ensure her future as a mother while at the same time remaining true to her values. This title presents a funny and poignant story about the changing shape of family around the world.