I'm 31 years old, recently married, and on the fence about ever having children. I've never been completely against it, but I've also never felt as though I'm "running out of time" or that my life is or
We live in a very different world to the one that existed 100 years ago. Women are no longer expected to have found and married the love of their life at 18, only to pop out their first child the following spring.
In the last few decades, fertility trends in the U.S. have undergone a massive shift. The average U.S. woman has her first child at age 28 (a five-year increase from the 1980s)
If you’re of a certain age (read: over 30) and are not yet in the relationship, odds are good that more than one person has advised you to “just freeze your eggs.”
More and more companies are wooing employees with the promise of contributions toward in-vitro fertilization sessions, egg freezing, and other fertility treatments.
After struggling with endometriosis for years, singer Halsey revealed that she's planning to freeze her eggs to be prepared if she wants children later in life.
IN THE WEEKS AFTERstorage tanks in two separate fertility clinics in different parts of the country failed, destroying hundreds and perhaps thousands of frozen eggs and embryos
Emma Wren Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born a few days after Thanksgiving in 2017, more than 25 years later. It’s the longest an embryo is known to have been frozen before being born as baby.
Wrap your head around this one: On November 25, 2017 a healthy baby girl was born to a 26-year-old mother in Tennessee—but the embryo that would later result in the baby was conceived and cryogenically frozen in 1992.
Gibson, born November 25, was frozen as an embryo and donated to a Knoxville faith-based clinic that specializes in embryo donation and adoption, doctors and her parents said.
