A city in Japan has announced that it will pay a large part of the cost of egg freezing for women who live there, as part of a program aimed at raising the country’s low birth rate. Egg freezing is the process of extracting egg cells from a woman’s ovaries and storing them for later use.
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Surprisingly, This Is the Best Age to Freeze Your Eggs
Egg freezing is slowly becoming mainstream. From a medical standpoint, it’s no longer considered experimental. Tech companies are starting to offer it as a perk. And cryopreservation banks even throw “egg-freezing parties” to convince women that it’s a smart way to extend their childbearing windows.
What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting: Freezing Egg Costs And Complications
Who are the women sitting in the waiting room with faraway eyes and brochures about egg freezing in their hands?It’s easiest to categorize them into two strikingly different groups. One group is made up of women who face illnesses that impact fertility, including endometriosis and cancer. On the advice of their doctors and supported by families and sometimes a husband, they’re making this choice to ensure that one day, following surgery or chemo, they still have the chance to mother their own biological children. The other group includes women who hurriedly speak about jobs with late hours and business trips and little time to meet guys. Even though it seems impossible within their current, busy lives, these women hold on to the hope that some far off day in the future they will have the option to have their own children should they wish to do so.
More Women are Freezing Their Eggs, But Will They Every Use Them
If egg freezing once sounded like science fiction, those days are over. Women now hear about it from their friends, their doctors and informational events like Wine and Freeze.
Everything We Still Don’t Know About Freezing Human Eggs
In an Era of egg freezing cocktail parties, it’s easy to forget that cryopreservation is, well, a little lacking in the science department.
Join The Crowd: Crowdfunding For Fertility Treatments
From presidential Missy Elliott tracksuits to crystal bacon sculptures, the crowdfunding world has seen its share of out-there efforts, but there’s plenty of real-life stuff going on, too.
Case in point: the growing popularity of using crowdfunding platforms to fund fertility treatments—from endometriosis surgery to IVF to egg freezing. (Currently, there are more than 130 such campaigns on GoFundMe alone, and more than 160 on YouCaring.)
Biological clock Ticking? What You Need to Know About Freezing Your Eggs.
When Apple and Facebook announced last year that they would cover elective egg freezing for their female workers, the companies sparked a lot of curiosity about this procedure. The ability to put motherhood on hold by preserving your eggs for future use seemed like an alluring way to ease the babymaking pressure for couples who are meeting and marrying later in life.
Biological Clock Ticking? Egg Freezing Now an Option
Reproductive specialists have frozen the eggs of women facing chemotherapy or radiation for decades. But in 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine essentially endorsed the practice as an elective procedure by declaring that egg freezing was no longer considered experimental. Since then, the egg-freezing business has ramped up at fertility centers across the country.
Millennial Women are the Slowest to Have Babies of Any Generation in U.S. History
Millennial women are the slowest to have kids of any generation in U.S. history. But don’t blame increasingly popular fertility innovations like egg freezing. Career ambitions appear to play a lesser role in delaying parenthood than a sputtering economy, according to a new study from the Urban Institute.
Buying Time: How Egg Freezing Has Moved Into the Mainstream
As more Canadian women turn to egg freezing to focus on building careers or as they wait for the right partner, The Globe’s Carly Weeks explores the fertility business, its procedures, and promises that might be too good to be true.