Taking Action
For many women as their late thirties loom, so too does increased chances of
infertility. For the women of the world wanting to be mothers, but waiting
Mister Right, there are options available to preserve your fertility and
healthy eggs. Women are taking action and spending tens of thousands of
dollars to extract their healthy eggs, freeze them to use at a later date.
This provides them with healthy young eggs to use when ready for pregnancy.
This is generally a technique used for cancer patients.
The Age reported, "Ms. Hill, from Collingwood in Melbourne, will start her
pre-operative regime next week and her eggs will be "retrieved" under
anaesthetic in July. A former lawyer with an MBA, she sees the $11,665 for
Melbourne IVF's "lifestyle egg freezing treatment" as money well spent. The
cost is so high because Medicare rebates do not apply to procedures done for
non-medical reasons. "I know that I am unlikely to be in the position to be
thinking realistically about having children until I am in my 40's," she
said. "I am a pragmatist and it would be better to be [trying to conceive]
with 38-year-old eggs."
The idea of lifestyle egg freezing has gained much ground in Australia, all
big capital cities Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane are seeing hundreds of
women enquiring about it each month. This may be the next fad in fertility.
Posted by Tala on 6/4/2009 2:53:21 PM
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