for me, if i didn t have a kid, i feel like my life wouldn t be as fulfilled. reporter: she picked a donor and wept through three rounds of fertility treatments. holding harlow is a reminder she made the right choice. even when she is like this and gets a little fussy reporter: 40 years when jane mattes became pregnant, fewer people were purposely having children on their own. i was 36 and all of my friends were actually having fertility problems, and it occurred to me i might not have this opportunity again. reporter: so she decided to have the baby, knowing his father would not be in the picture. to get the support she needed, she created her own village and started single mothers by choice. you really can t raise a child alone, but you can make sure that as a single parent you have a lot of people in the child s life who love that child. reporter: over the
I didn’t want to put my dream of being a parent on hold because I hadn’t met the right guy. But there are huge barriers keeping women like me from doing the same.