When Janelle was provided a list of 25 sperm donors to choose from, it took her just half an hour to decide.
By the time she had read through the third profile, she was confident she had found "the one".
"I had an intuitive gut feeling," she told Mamamia.
"I really had a strong affinity for him in terms of the words he used to describe himself as a child and his upbringing. And his values were very much aligned to my own... I remember my mum reading the profile and just saying 'he's a bit like a male version of you'."
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Janelle, an anaesthetist from Melbourne, only began to consider IVF after her 12 year relationship came to an abrupt end.
She found herself thrown into the deep end of the dating world - and as a busy doctor she struggled to schedule in dates, let alone find someone who wanted to start a family.
"I really noticed how much pressure it was putting on the dating situation. When you [want] to become a mother... it's not the first conversation you have, but it's something that comes up very early in the act of dating."
So at 37, she turned to egg freezing to "take the pressure off" her dating life.
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