All things egg freezing and back to help inspire, teach, educate women about oocyte cryopreservation.™
My name is Carolyn Moos. I’m a 6’5″ former USA basketball, Stanford, FIBA/WNBA player and certified personal trainer, yoga instructor and nutrition consultant. Being an athlete all my life, I knew the meaning of planning, hard work, dedication and execution. Planning ahead for wanting marriage and children of my own requires some similar forward thinking,…
My name is Mimi Lee. Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, a San Francisco Court rendered a decision that would devastate and change my life forever. A single judge determined the fate of my five embryos that my ex-husband and I had intentionally created after my shocking diagnosis of breast cancer. I put my own health…
My name is Elizabeth Higgins Clark. Shortly before my 30th birthday, I came across information that she never knew before. After learning about how rapidly fertility declines as women age, I decided to freeze my eggs. My experience has lead me to speak publicly about fertility education to young women and college students across the country….
My name is Rachel Lehmann-Haupt. Around the time I was researching the first edition of In Her Own Sweet Time, which is a personal memoir that explores the decision to freeze my eggs along with the new choices that come with the rising age of motherhood as women try to balance career, love, and family,…
My name is Helen Johnson. I first considered egg freezing when I was going through a break up at the age of 30 (2011) and my friend suggested I could always freeze my eggs if I didn’t meet someone else anytime soon – just a throw away comment to a friend going through the ‘I’ll…
My name is Sarah Elizabeth Richards. I am a journalist and the author of Motherhood Rescheduled, a narrative non-fiction book that chronicles the lives of four women who attempt to preserve their fertility by freezing their eggs. I’ve been so fascinated by this new technology that I’ve written about it from nearly every angle possible for The…
My name is Jennifer Frappier. I’m 39, single, and currently live in Los Angeles, California. My life is beautiful, hectic, exciting and at times a bit overwhelming. Is it possible to balance my career, pursue my dreams and still find time to have a family? We’ve been told – “You can’t have it all.” Should I…
My name is MeiMei Fox. A FedEx box arrived containing $3,300 worth of medications. And so begins the process of freezing (hopefully without scrambling) my eggs. I can’t help but feel sad as I open the box and sort through the piles of hormones, syringes, needles, and gauze pads, placing a few precious bottles of follicle…