With women’s careers blooming and the mean age of marriage now being 32 for men and 30 for women; childbirth is being delayed later into women’s thirties. Lots of women are in the mindset of career first and family later, which would be fine…if it weren’t for that ticking clock.
No one wants to go home every Christmas just to have Grandma make that clucking sound and raise an eyebrow saying “you can leave it too late you know dear!” Well…does Grandma know about women’s new insurance policy? I think not.
The increase in egg freezing
The growing craze of freezing your eggs for a mere £5,000 (plus £200 per year they are kept frozen) now seems a small price to pay. Started in 2002 it has now become a foolproof way of insuring that the “quality”, so to speak, of your eggs is still top notch if you decide you want children by the time you are 40.
Before 35 you still have a 75% chance of a live birth, so many people choose to store 10-12 eggs for maximum 10 years in -196 C to insure that their baby will still be healthy.
How many women are freezing their eggs?
Only last month a poll of 3,000 women aged 28 to 45 by Red magazine found a fifth had considered freezing their eggs for use later on. Whether it is due to trying to focus on your career or find Mr Right it does serve to take the pressure off this new method could change the face of fertility in Britain today. People even say that in the next forty years having your eggs frozen could be as commonplace as having a smear test.
What do you think – freeze your eggs now and get back to it when you can? Or use the most foolproof way of fertility – natural conception before 35?
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