What Freezing Your Eggs Is Really Like (For Both Singles And Couples)

By Emma Brancatisano, HuffPost Australia 

What I find women saying to me is, ‘I want choice’. They want options. They don’t want to regret not doing something. But often they have an unrealistic expectations of what eggs can do.

In 2017, more Australian women are having children later in life. In two generations, the average age of a childbearing mother has risen from 25 to 31.

 

And for some, thanks to the evolution of such technologies as rapid egg freezing, this comes at a point in their life that they may prefer. A potential pregnancy put on hold.

 

While the reasons for this are many — illness, career prospects or being without a partner, to name a few — fertility experts warn that these changes stand in the face of a hard, rigid biological truth.

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