Saturday, November 25, 2006

Stop Your Biological Clock

Many women, especially those pursuing their careers, worry that when they are finally ready to have children, their fertility will be reduced.  This is a very real concern, as fertility in women does start to decline in your late twenties.  The technology for freezing embryos has been around for some time, but the problem is, you need a male to contribute to the process.  Now the technology exists for women to simply freeze their embryos when they are most fertile (preferably in their twenties or early thirties), and then they can choose a partner later when they are interested in fertilizing the eggs and conceiving a child.  More...

Freeze your eggs to have children later (The Herald)

Single women worried about their biological clock are for the first time in Scotland being offered the chance to freeze their eggs and preserve their fertility.

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