The results shocked the 35-year-old.
“My fertility [had] dropped off a cliff,” she revealed. “I was so surprised.”
Knowing she wanted a baby, Hayli refused to have the dark cloud of her fertility looming over her head, ultimately influencing who she decided to date.
“I found that the mistake girls are making when they get to their 30s is that the clock is ticking, so they’re looking harder and quicker for more men and, you know, the pressure to be in a relationship, but at the end of the day, they end up picking the wrong person,” Hayli told Mamamia.
So, she made a backup plan and froze her eggs.
Because her AMH test results were so “below average,” the nurse qualified for a medical rebate.
“I was so lucky that I researched it,” she said. “If I hadn’t done something at the time, who knows whether I would have been able to have kids later.”
Of course, she isn’t on the other side of her fertility journey just yet.
“They only implant eggs back into your body to the maximum of 44 in Australia, and depending on when you go into perimenopause,” Hayli said. “I’m 38 now and coming to the end of that sliding scale, so it’s starting to creep back into my head.”
With strict rules in place and a sperm donor shortage in Australia, a dangerous black market trade and overseas trips for sperm have been on the rise.
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