New York City — Up against her biological clock, Traci Kodeck faced a tough decision at age 39.
She says she remembered the moment she decided to have a baby on her own.
“I was with my best friend, and I said, ‘I don’t have a partner, I need to be a mom,'” Kodeck told CBS News.
She emptied her savings to cover fertility treatments, ultimately using sperm donated by a friend. After three years of trying, she had Zola.
“Then it was, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m taking home a human.’ And she was perfect,” Kodeck said.
Kodeck belongs to the organization Single Mothers by Choice. Its 30,000 members are part of a growing trend of women having babies alone because they’re tired of waiting for “the one,” or they…
