They spent years trying for a baby. Then the hurricane hit.

is the climate and sustainability reporter at The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender. Her work has been republished in many outlets including High Country News, the Guardian, Slate, Mother Jones, and the Atlantic.is a staff writer at Grist covering climate change and its effects on human health. Her work can also be found in Wired, Rolling Stone, the Associated Press, and other outlets. If it does, the patient’s eggs are removed for fertilization in an outpatient procedure called an egg retrieval. The eggs must be...