[Days of Broken Arrows]

(01-29-2018 01:30 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

A major news story about this just broke today.

Several media outlets came out with articles stating that the success of egg freezing is not good. They say "the industry" knew this but didn't let women know this in advance.

The article centers around Brigitte Adams, who was in her late 30s when she appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek (below) for a story that touted the benefits of egg freezing.



Four years and $19,000 later, Brigitte is still as barren as the Mojave Desert in the dead of summer. Eleven of her frozen eggs "failed," so she's run back to the newsmedia about it. (This woman was probably the one 2Wycked quoted above in his original post, but I can't tell because the original Wall Street Journal link he provided is not working -- typical newsmedia ineptitude.)

TV Newser, the most unbiased source I could find, quotes a fertility specialist as calling the previous media cheerleading on this "total fiction." That article is headlined "One-Time Face of Women Freezing Eggs Now Has Warning."

This is going to have major, major ramifications for women. Unless there are some bigtime advances in technology soon, women won't be able to fall back on this if they want kids. To read the full story, go here. Variations of this article are also in the Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle, among other papers.

The good news is that any of you who own stock in companies that make cat food will be very rich very soon. Hahahahaha.

The Washington Post just did a follow-up on all of this. Heartiste has an excellent post about it.

Turns out that the woman from the above magazine cover who froze her eggs, Brigitte Adams, is now pregnant and due in May. After the many failed attempts (see above) she ended up pregnant by using both donor eggs and donor sperm. She's now 46.

Even the Washington Post's liberal readers are like "WTF?" in the story's comments section. It's not just a matter of the donor eggs and sperm -- weird as they are. She'll be a first-time mother in her late forties. Kids are hard enough in your twenties and thirties.

As I mentioned earlier in this thread (or somewhere on here), my mother was 46 when I graduated college. During my college years, I tried her patience quite a bit, so I wonder what it will be like to have a mother who is 64 when you go off to college.

That is, if you even make it to college. If you look on the Web, there are stories of kids like this who spend their teen years caring for mothers who are the age of grandmoms. Also, here is a fun story SOMEONE should have read: "World's Oldest Mom Dies, Leaving Two Toddlers."

I give up. Things are just too strange for me to comment any further.