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It's not every day you see a woman examining a fingerful of her own discharge with a wonder normally reserved for sunsets or UFOs.

But this is how new online drama 'All Our Eggs' decides to introduce Charlie (Adrienne Pickering of 'Rake'), a 35-year-old woman who is trying to fall pregnant.

"Ovulation," she says, right down the camera. "That's the big 'O' I'm chasing these days."

It may seem graphic, and it is, but so is the world of trying for a baby when you're a woman in your thirties. And for Charlie and her partner Jack, (Matt Zeremes), it looks like it's going to be a long road.

Directed by Martha Goddard, who also co-writes with playwright Vanessa Bates, 'All Our Eggs' is partly inspired by Bates' experiences of trying to conceive (she's written a blog, a book and a play about the experience, which she has described as "absurd, draining and expensive, and not just in the monetary sense.")

While the series takes a darkly humorous look at what Charlie and Jack go through, it's not without a heavy dose of reality. After all, we know that women are choosing to have babies later and, while this is conducive to professional and personal development, we also know a woman's fertility begins to decline once she hits her thirties. At 35, fertility decline speeds up, and at 40, fertility has fallen by half.

It certainly gave Goddard something to think about, who is currently heavily pregnant with her first child.

"This series really has something to account for here," she told HuffPost Australia. "It certainly made me have that conversation, in that we started talking about it when I read Vanessa's book.