Why I Froze My Eggs

This line from the article is what stood out most to me "And it's a buzz kill on dates when you feel compelled to ask the guy sitting across from you, clutching his craft beer, "So do you think you might want kids someday?""<p>Is that really the case? I mean if your intention of dating is to meet someone that may eventually turn into a lifelong partner, knowing if their stance on children is congruent with your own definitely seems like something you'd want to hash out pretty darn early.

Perhaps it could be advantageous for men to freeze their sperm at a young age, too. There is some evidence that the older the father is at conception, the more likely his child is to have autism. There's also at least one study that suggests that the link can skip a generation: if a man is relatively old when he has a son, then his grandson is more likely to have autism. (That said, conflicting studies exist, and more research is required.)<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_age_effect" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_age_effect</a><p><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/grandfathers-age-linked-to-autism/" rel="nofollow">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/grandfathers-age-li...</a>

It should be noted that the success rate of frozen eggs is not great. The data is all over the place, but generally, implantation and pregnancy rates are substantially less than a coin flip.

Embarrassingly enough I expected this to be an article about chicken's eggs.

What's really impressive are the comments. If you ever wondered about readers of the wsj, this should cinch it.

There is a better option that allows you to have as many children as you want whenever you want: adoption. Why bring in more children into the world when there are already so many that are unwanted?

I wonder what a woman that spends $50,000 to freeze her eggs in her mid thirties would say about a man who spends $50,000 in his mid thirties on a sports car.

Did someone take into account the kids? My dad turned 60 recently, and the mere thought that he will be a pensioner before I make any considerable amount of money and likely senile/needing full-time care by the time I turn 35 is…weird.

At age 36, with no kids and no marriage, she had to obliterate her savings to fund 50k? I feel like some part of her "big life plan" went south.<p>It's rather troubling she mentions having insurance cover this procedure...

From what I've read, fertility starts declining at 35, so if you're going to freeze eggs, probably best to do it before then.