Yeah, the story does sort of read like the BB, doesn’t it.
Humans have biological bodies that they inhabit while navigating a world shaped and, increasingly, reshaped by human cultural activities. Biology is not (necessarily) destiny, to modify the old feminist war cry. But, biology is in the background of each person as they make individual life choices. Early on, it is not quite a zero sum game. Limited “do over’s” are possible but the time lost is unrecoverable. Later, you reach a point in your lifecycle where too late a start makes even a good, determined effort of diminished value/worth/benefit or, perhaps, not worth doing at all.
Depending on her specific reproductive status, biological children are not beyond the realm of possibility…yet.
My daughters are Millennials, both in their very early forties just now (2023). In 2020, we had no grandchildren. Now we have three. All normal and healthy. $$$$.
They both are very happy finally to be mothers. For one, it was ten years of trying before finally succeeding. For the other, it was career building at first and then, as she transited her 30s, finding the pool of marriageable men becoming smaller and smaller.
But being mothers so late in the biological cycle has costs that feminist sloganeering cannot negate. What they cannot get back is the natural energy and rapid recovery that younger mothers (20s and 30s) have. So, the infant/toddler stage - even with help from parents and friends - is proving to be pretty wearing. They both are looking forward to when their children start school full time.
All three grandchildren conceived by natural means? In intact traditional marriages? And what does "$$$$" have to do with it?
So, the infant/toddler stage - even with help from parents and friends - is proving to be pretty wearing.
Had my final child at 48. Piece of cake!
Nor did my wife (foreign-born, 16 years my junior) seem to mind.
Regards,