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I came out of the holiday season and into the new year with guns blazing, expectations as high as my heels, but my head still in holidaze. I was finally ready to move on from the dating relationship I was “half-in” for the last eight months. It was time. My friends were tired of telling…
Al Arabiya News — Special Mission — The Problem of Reproduction In the modern life fast pace and the interest of women in work and study and increase the scientific ambition and the pressures of life on them all made the issue of marriage and reproduction a real dilemma, especially with age, and most of…
On the record coldest day since 1985, Chicago was in the middle of a polar vortex with -50F or -45C degree weather, so it seemed only fitting that I would be on-air at WGN Radio talking with Patti Vasquez about egg freezing and fertility. Talking about fertility topics in my world are about as commonplace…
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) & It’s Relationship to Metabolic Risk Factors (Obesity, Diabetes, Hair growth and more) Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a health condition that affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age. Women with PCOS have a hormonal imbalance and metabolism problems that may lead to obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, infertility,…
By Amanda Duberman Jennifer Frappier froze her eggs when she was 36. A few years later, she was still single and thinking seriously about using them to become a single parent. She prepared to buy a house with an unused wedding fund and started browsing sperm donors. She figured she wouldn’t have time for dating…
By Virginia Pelley Valerie Landis was familiar with the process of oocyte cryopreservation, known informally as egg freezing and euphemistically as “fertility preservation.” After all, she’d been working in the women’s health and fertility space for most of her career. She first considered freezing her eggs at 28, but held off to work through a…
By Natalie Gil With the average age of first-time motherhood on the rise in many countries (in the UK it’s currently 28.7 years old), companies are dreaming up increasingly inventive ways to entice women into freezing their eggs to postpone motherhood and gain some control over their so-called “biological clock”. Along with apps, pop-up shops and Instagrammable mobile vans, stories…
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” — Frida Kahlo October is here which means not only great fall weather, the Chicago Marathon, and my industry fertility ASRM meeting, but it is also breast cancer awareness month. Pink ribbons have taken over football, the airport, and…