Most of us spend our teens and twenties doing everything we can to avoid pregnancy. For Sydney-based writer and podcaster Kate Lancaster, the messaging was always the same: be careful, don’t take risks, don’t even think about it.
“It’s so true when people say we go through our whole adolescence and early adult life just avoiding pregnancy at all costs,” she reflects. “And then one day, you’re told your fertility might already be on the decline—and suddenly,…

