All things egg freezing and back to help inspire, teach, educate women about oocyte cryopreservation.™
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…
Fertility Friday — Egg Freezing and Cryopreservation Fertility Preservation — Lisa Hendrickson-Jack Valerie has been working in women’s health field for the last decade. Her medical career experiences and passion for helping women merged when she founded her educational website eggsperience.com. She focuses on guiding women of any reproductive age through the complex and challenging paths…
PodcastDx: On this week’s episode we speak with Valerie Landis. Valerie is the host of the Eggology Club Podcast, writer of the Blog eggsperience and nominee for a WEGO Health Award. Valerie discusses her decision to undergo cryopreservation of own eggs and why she believes it is a good option for many women. …
New York Times: Putting Their Eggs and Hopes on Ice — These Companies Really, Really, Really Want to Freeze Your Eggs. Egg-freezing clinics are aggressively courting a new generation. Younger millennials are heeding the call. Jennifer Lannon lay, her feet propped in stirrups, on an examining table at Extend Fertility, an egg-freezing clinic in Midtown Manhattan….
Many say or think that egg freezing is too expensive or seems impossible to afford. What most may not know is that actually the costs for freezing have come down significantly and if you are your own egg donor the lifetime value could be more beneficial than you can ever place value on. Check out…
Welcome to Part 3 of a Girlfriend’s Guide to Egg Freezing by our Fertility Friend Valerie Landis. In Part 1, Valerie told us about the egg freezing process, and the ideal time to freeze your eggs. Last week, in Part 2 Valerie told us about fertility tests and the cost of egg freezing and this week in…