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Wondering if you or anyone you know is a suitable candidate for egg freezing?

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Goral Gandhi
Wondering if you or anyone you know is a suitable candidate for egg freezing?

Statistically speaking in the late 1980s, the average woman had her first baby by the age of 22. By 2000, that age had risen to almost 25, and by 2020, the average woman waits until the age of 26 to have her first child.

Although society may be changing by leaps and bounds year after year, the biological realities of fertility remain the same. Theoretically, most women enter their menopausal period by their late 40s or early 50s. In the years before menopause, a woman’s fertility declines.

Considering these ironies of woman anatomy and the changing landscape of the society toward a more goal and career-oriented woman, I wanted to share my thoughts about 3 distinctive categories of Women who certainly should consider opting for the “Egg Freezing Procedure”.

Egg Freezing is a process in which a woman’s eggs (oocytes) are extracted, frozen and stored as a method to preserve reproductive potential in women of reproductive age. This scientifically proven and much adopted worldwide method has advanced greatly over the past few years, with the improved overall success of eggs surviving the freezing process.
It is no longer considered an experimental procedure by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. A few years back, big conglomerates of the World – Facebook and Apple announced their decision to offer to pay for female employees to freeze their eggs, in theory, allowing women to ‘have it all’ – to pursue their career aspirations and to have biologically related ‘children’.

The Single Woman:

Ms. A is a single woman, born to liberal-minded parents who not only encouraged her to get a great education but also never enforced upon her to get married or settled solely based on her advancing age. For Ms. A, there could be numerous reasons for not getting married, but the most common factor may be that she never found her Mr. Right. In that scenario, if she hopes to wait out for her knight in shining armor to enter her life at one point, she cannot magically stop the time or her biological clock from ticking away.

Like a larger proportion of women, if she harbors a desire of having kids one day, but also waiting for the right man then she stands to be the perfect candidate to opt for Egg Freezing procedure.

 The Career Woman:

Mrs. B is a happily married woman, who was fortunate to have been married to her college boyfriend at a good age of 27. However, being an ambitious woman her goals and dreams are far bigger than being confined to the home. She is that workaholic type-A woman focused on her career and has no time for Motherhood at this peak of her career. However, deep down between the college sweethearts is also a dream to have a child; after all, they both are working hard to earn money and provide financial security for their future child. But the path to a successful career is not easy and certainly not a short one.

With her advancing age and declining fertility, while she traverses career growth and achieves professional success, Egg Freezing is the most viable option for her to have the security of having a child at a time that she is completely comfortable and confident with total devotion.

 The Medically Unfit Woman:

Mrs. C is a married young woman with a very fertile partner and extremely eager to start a new family of their own at the perfectly and clinically appropriate age. However, she was diagnosed with Cancer upon her initial testing rendering her unable to retain her ovaries, including her viable eggs. Much like all the other deteriorating effects of Cancer treatments, her fertility level and egg quality both will be drastically affected.

However, still harboring the wish of having a child of her own someday while giving a tough fight to Cancer, Mrs. C is the best candidate for the Egg Freezing procedure.

As we enter the next decade, thousands of women across the globe have already decided to freeze their eggs, giving them the power to have children when the timing is right, not when their biological clock dictates they should have them. Egg freezing has truly revolutionized how and when women can have children.

Wondering if you or anyone you know is a suitable candidate for egg freezing? Write to me on [email protected] to discuss and find out.

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