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Abby and Jaimie chat with Valerie Landis, a Fertility Advocate, to explain all things SEX and everything you never learned in health class. We talk family planning, new-age contraception methods, the “internal condom,” and of course egg freezing. We hear her first-hand account of freezing her eggs and selecting a potential sperm donor (spoiler alert:…
Paying the yearly fertility storage bill is not the only thing women have to worry about after freezing eggs. In the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, women also have to worry about how many years their eggs have been frozen due to an outdated law that requires fertility clinics (even private clinics) to mandate…
Two Times Editors on Creating a Special Section About Fertility. It can be hard to find straightforward content about pregnancy (and avoiding it). Jessica Grose and Amber Williams wanted to change that. Fertility is a complex, often overwhelming topic. Searching for explanations — about how to get pregnant, how to avoid it or even how…
Continuing our series of posts with industry experts’ tips and recommendations (you can find our previous post with 24 Experts Sharing their Wisdom on How to have a Successful Surrogacy Journey), we decided this time to reach out to several egg donation experts to ask them for their best tips for both egg donors and intended…
In less than three months, I will be 37 years old. I am currently single, actively dating (unsuccessfully), and have not attempted parenthood yet (by choice). I live in the large metropolitan city of Chicago. I have a great job and work in an industry I love and feel passionate about. I have an amazing…
Women go on “egg-cation” to split the cost of freezing eggs Stefanie O’ConnellSpecial to USA TODAY Published 5:04 a.m. ET May 10, 2019 Valerie Landis is planning a trip to the Cayman Islands with her girlfriends. It’s not for spring break or for a bachelorette party, but to undergo the increasingly popular procedure of egg…
Should all women consider egg freezing? Egg freezing is no different of an accomplishment than the milestone of completing college or buying a house, at least according to egg freezing advocate, Valerie Landis. She believes egg freezing is the best thing we have for prolonging our fertility futures but is that really an attainable goal…
By Valerie Landis “Wait … wait, what? Why are you freezing again?” This is a question I get on a regular basis. Often whenever I’m talking to anyone about my very public decision to freeze my eggs not once, not twice, but three times, I get a lot of raised eyebrows. “How many eggs do…