"We are seeing an increase in inquiries, but we're not sure if it's due to the economy or increased awareness, " said Dr. Susan Willman, a reproductive endocrinologist at the Reproductive Science Center of the BayArea.
She was hanging out with MIT alumni in the BayArea and was talking with an MIT classmate, Christine Yen, a computer science major who worked at Google (GOOG) and Aardvark, in August 2009.