Career Women Put Motherhood on Ice
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Scientists said that many of young women will be freezing their eggs in order to pursue a career within a decade as some doctors believe techniques being developed will improve the birth rate from frozen eggs to such an extent that by 2015 many women will be making the choice to do that motherhood ice.
In Britain, there are only a few dozen women have had their eggs frozen to preserve their fertility, and as of the procedure, only three babies have been born because the chances of having a baby are somewhere between five and 10 per cent per treatment cycle.
Director of the Centre of Assisted Reproduction in Nottingham, Dr Simon Fishel predicted a social revolution as women routinely put parenthood on hold. He believes that in the future, more people who do not have a fertility problem will have IVF treatment. But the current social structure is not going to change as women of reproductive age are going to want careers.
Actually, because the eggs contain more water, they are harder to freeze than sperm and by using current methods there is the danger that an egg will be damaged during freezing.
The average success rate for IVF using fresh embryos is 27.6 % for women under 35 in some British clinics. A woman’s chances of becoming pregnant falls in her late-thirties without fertility treatment.
Now about 16 clinics registred in Britain offer an egg freezing service. One of the main centres is the Midlands Fertility Services in Aldridge that has frozen eggs for 56 patients.
There is this perception that women who choose to freeze their eggs as a lifestyle choice are aggressive alpha females who map their lives out involving concentrating on their careers and waiting until their forties before they have babies. This is not the case. It is mainly women who have found themselves without a partner in their early to mid-30s. It is not done as a career choice but as an insurance, just like Jill Anthony-Ackery, of Midlands Fertility Services said.
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