Extreme amounts of hamsterization in this article, thought I would share the humor on a random Tuesday with the boys. My comments in red/brackets, I bolded the highlights.
http://nypost.com/2015/01/19/we-have-a-b...e-my-eggs/
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http://nypost.com/2015/01/19/we-have-a-b...e-my-eggs/
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Whether they haven’t yet met the right man, want to concentrate on their careers, or are married and looking to delay motherhood, a growing number of New York women are now opting to freeze their eggs.
Fertility clinics in New York report a 100 percent increase in demand for elective egg-freezing over the past two years.
Dr. Alan Copperman, director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Mount Sinai Hospital, says so-called “oocyte cryopreservation” — as opposed to the more proven practice of freezing inseminated eggs, or embryos — is the largest-growing segment of his practice.
“The demographic in New York City was ready for this technology because there are so many career-minded women in their 30s who someday want a family,” he tells The Post, citing a doubling in the number of women having the procedure since 2012 and a quadrupling in the figures since 2010.
Progressive companies such as Facebook and Apple are now offering elective egg-freezing as an employee benefit. [Oh yes, Sheryl and Company will do anything to keep the young slaves, err, ladies in the office working 80 hour weeks]
But the procedure is far from a sure thing — with the rate of a frozen egg actually yielding a baby between just 2 and 12 percent for women ages 38 and under.
So why shell out tens of thousands of dollars to go ahead with the treatment? Here, four local women reveal their motivations for putting their eggs on ice.
‘I’m focused on my career’
Elizabeth Higgins Clark, 30, of Hillsdale, NJ [she looks great...for 42]
When Elizabeth Higgins Clark read that the upper age limit for egg donors in the US is 32, it made her angry.
“I was a little outraged that sex education at school is all about how not to get pregnant and avoid diseases, but doesn’t cover how a woman’s fertility decreases dramatically in her 30s,” says the New Jersey-born actress, who froze her eggs in the spring of last year with RMANJ at the age of 29. [Yes Liz, our schools should teach little future cat ladies all about how your eggs will dry up]
“I thought, ‘If I have trouble conceiving when I’m older, why wouldn’t I want to be my own egg donor?’ ”
Having a baby in the next few years is definitely not in the cards because Higgins Clark wants to concentrate on her acting career, a profession notoriously tough for moms because of the long hours and travel involved.
“My feelings were moving in reverse of my body, which was aggressively moving toward [needing to have] kids,” says Higgins Clark, who now lives in Los Angeles. [That is mother nature talking to you sweetie, you better listen up]
She decided to act fast and have her eggs frozen at 29 because she “didn’t want to make the decision out of fear” in her late 30s.
Now the eggs she froze last spring are 9 months younger than she is.
“I wish I’d done it at 22, because the younger you are, the more eggs they can get in a single harvest,” adds Higgins Clark. “A lot of women who are in their late 30s have to do multiple and expensive rounds in order to create enough eggs.”
‘I wish I’d done it at 22, because the younger you are, the more eggs they can get in a single harvest.’
The actress says it was awkward telling her parents about her choice, but they were fully supportive and even helped financially.
“The whole thing cost $10K (plus an annual $1,000 for storage of the eggs), and my father split the cost with me,” she says, explaining that he is keen to eventually become a granddad. [Still taking money from daddy!]
As for the procedure, the hardest part wasn’t so much the thrice-daily injections of hormones for nine days or the mood swings, but the soreness and pain after the retrieval under general anesthetic.
But Higgins Clark recuperated at her family home in Hillsdale, NJ, and was back on her feet again within a couple of days.
Now 16 of her eggs have been frozen and are kept in storage at RMANJ’s facility in Basking Ridge, NJ, ready for the day when she decides to have them thawed and inseminated.
“There is not a ton of research out there, and I know there’s a chance that it won’t work, but my doctor, Dr. Michael Drews, said he thought those 16 eggs would be enough to give me two healthy babies,” says Higgins Clark. “I’m trusting that that’s the case.”
‘I haven’t met the right man’
Tai Beauchamp, 37, of lower Manhattan
As a successful TV personality and entrepreneur, Tai Beauchamp appears to have it all — striking good looks, a lively personality and an exciting career.
But the one thing missing from the 37-year-old’s life is a man with whom to have children.
“If I had to do it over again, although I have very few regrets in my life, I’d have dated a lot more strategically when I was 28,” she admits. “I put my personal life on the back burner and thought meeting a guy would ‘just happen.’ But nothing in life ‘just happens.’ ”
Suspecting that she was unlikely to meet Mr. Right any time soon, and with her biological clock ticking, the Type-A businesswoman had 10 of her eggs frozen at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (RMANJ) in August 2013. Storage costs $1,200 a year.
“Around the age of 29, I decided that 35 would be the age where, if I didn’t already have a husband, I’d freeze my eggs,” she says. “It’s an insurance policy because my goal is to have a child naturally.” [Honey, you've had literally 20 years to have a baby "naturally"]
Beauchamp, who is currently dating [still on the cock carousal], claims that the men she has told have been supportive.
‘It’s an insurance policy because my goal is to have a child naturally.’
“I don’t announce it on the first date or e-mail them a memo,” she laughs. “But if the conversation comes up about family planning and having children, I’ll tell them.
“Their reactions have been positive, as it really takes away pressure from them and off the relationship.” [Sweet, this dumb broad is 37 and STILL wont want to lock me down!]
As for the $14K egg-freezing procedure, she describes the experience as being “emotional” and “like a typical menstrual cycle feels for a woman, but times 15.”
“The most uncomfortable thing is having swollen fallopian tubes and ovaries,” she recalls. “It’s not a decision to be taken lightly, as there are definitely health risks.
“But the entire process is one of the most empowering things I’ve ever done. It’s liberating. As a woman, you need to take whatever steps you need to ensure your desires are met.”
‘It’s my insurance policy for baby No. 2’
Jacqueline Klosek, 41, of Manasquan, NJ
Klosek would like to have a second child and has frozen her eggs in case she has difficulty getting pregnant again.
Playing with her adorable 16-month-old baby Kayla, attorney Jacqueline Klosek is looking forward to the time when she can give her daughter a brother or sister to join in the fun.
But at the age of 41, Klosek doesn’t have any of the usual worries about her biological clock and whether she will be able to conceive as easily as she did with Kayla.
That’s because she froze her eggs — and also a number of embryos fertilized by her partner, Tom Lozinski — when she was 38, as a safeguard in case she struggled to get pregnant naturally.
“I was 37 and at a routine OB-GYN appointment when my doctor asked what I was thinking of as far as children were concerned,” recalls Klosek, of Manasquan, NJ. “It was weird, because the subject honestly hadn’t dawned on me, and I’d put thoughts of having children on the back burner.” [Really, you never even thought about it?? Tom, you god damn beta, stop enabling her!!]
But knowing that she wanted to have kids some day — though not imminently, partly because Tom is four years younger than she — Klosek consulted RMANJ about egg-freezing.
“They explained that, medically, it would be better if they froze some of the eggs after fertilization with Tom’s sperm as embryos and [left] the others unfertilized,” she says. “I guess [the option to freeze unfertilized eggs] was an insurance policy in case things didn’t work out with Tom.” [Tom, you're killing me bro]
Klosek went ahead with the $25K procedure and ended up with three embryos and 12 eggs, which are now being kept on ice at the clinic, ready to be thawed when needed.
Nonetheless, when she turned 40, Klosek started trying naturally for a baby with Tom and got pregnant with Kayla the very first month.
“We are very grateful for our beautiful baby, but I don’t regret having the egg-freezing procedure,” she concludes. “You never know what the future might hold in terms of your fertility, so it’s given me peace of mind.”
‘I want to be a mom in my 40s’
Annie Scranton, 34, of Manhattan
Annie Scranton doesn’t want to become a mother until she’s at least 40.
“I’ve just always seen myself as an older mom and, fortunately, since I live in New York City, it’s common for women to have their first baby after 40,” says the high-flying owner of Pace Public Relations.
The 34-year-old, who got married last August, froze her eggs at NYU Fertility Center in January 2012 while engaged to her husband, Michael, 32, a TV producer. [Michael, you in the same bridge club as Tom?]
“We’re very much a team, but I’d say this was a very personal decision,” says Scranton. “I’d made up my mind to do it long before we’d gotten together.
“We didn’t have a serious sit-down conversation about it. One day, I pretty much said, ‘I’m going to freeze my eggs,’ and he said, ‘Cool!’
“He knows that I found it empowering and something that levels the playing field a bit between men and women. Men can have babies well into their 70s, and it’s not really fair biologically.
“Also, we’re only recently married, so it’s good that we can spend time with just the two of us.”
She chose to freeze her eggs — rather than embryos created with Michael’s sperm — because it “seems a little too sci-fi to literally keep babies on ice.” [Or because you will frivorce Michael, take your cash and prizes, and get some high quality alpha sperm]
In common with many women who undergo the procedure, she sees it more as an insurance against infertility later in life and will try to get pregnant naturally before thawing the supply.
“I wasn’t getting younger and, luckily, I had the financial means to go ahead with it,” adds Scranton of the $12K process. “But the doctors were very up front that there’s not a guarantee that it’s going to result in a baby.
“That being said, they were confident that the procedure would result in a good, healthy number of viable eggs.”
One of Scranton’s biggest supporters was her mom, who started researching the subject of oocyte freezing when her daughter was 27.
“She is very up on trends, and when Maria Menounos did it years ago, she said it was something I should look into.
“I wasn’t in that head space at the time, but as soon as I hit 30, I was making plans.”
This is our culture gentlemen, enjoy the decline.