By Goral Gandhi - For women, balancing their career and motherhood is a big ask. If we speak statistically, in the early 1980’s women tend to have their first baby at the age of 22. Now by 2000, that average age increased to 25 and till 2019, that age has gone up to 26. Nowadays, women opt for late pregnancies a lot as they are more and more concerned about their career at an early age. The number of women being pregnant after 40 is tripled since 1980 in the United Kingdom. Now, by 2016, the number of a 40-year-old woman giving birth is way higher than a 20-year-old. In the United States, 2.3% of the total birth is given by the woman between 40 to 44 years.
You can easily understand now that the society is changing pretty rapidly. But one thing for sure is that the reality of fertility is always the same. Most of the women have their menopausal period in the late ’40s and ’50s. Though it is seen that an older woman may become a mother but conceiving becomes a lot harder for them compared to young ones. Here I am going to share my thoughts on three different categories of women who should certainly opt for the ‘Egg Freezing Procedure’.
Single Woman:
A single woman Ms. A is born to a liberal-minded and socially forward family. Her parents helped her to acquire a great education and also didn’t force her to marry when her age was advancing. There may be a number of reasons for which Ms. A is not marrying but the most common among them will be she did not find her Mr. Right till now. She can certainly wait to find the hero of her dreams but she also has to think that that will not stop her biological clock which is running out of time. If she likes to have kid later but is still waiting for her Mr. Right, she has to opt for the Egg Freezing Procedure.
Career Woman:
A happily married woman Mrs. B married her college love at the age of 27. She is an ambitious woman with big goals. She is always focused on her career and will not get time for motherhood when she is at the peak of her career. But the couple always dreams of a child as they are working this hard only to secure a better future for their child. But the path is big enough and certainly will take some time. With her advancing age, her fertility is decreasing; the only way to stop that is via Egg Freezing. After that, she will be tension-free and can work with complete devotion.
Medically Unfit Woman:
A happily married woman Mrs. C is at the perfect age to start a family with a perfectly fertile partner. But the thing that is blocking her is cancer. With cancer treatments like Chemotherapy and Radiation, the quality of eggs gets affected drastically. But she still wishes of having a child. The best possible thing for which Mrs. C opt for now is without any doubt, Egg Freezing Procedure.
Till 2019, thousands of women all around the world have opted to freeze their eggs, which gave them the power to have a child at the right time when they require. They don’t have to think about the biological clock anymore. The process of how women can have their children is truly revolutionized by egg-freezing. I hope the perspective given on 3 major categories of women will help you out in that regard.
Goral Gandhi one of India’s leading embryology specialist and IVF trainer & training in India. More than 300 embryologists trained over two decades, across laboratories around the world. Dr. Goral Gandhi is the Founder as well as Scientific and Laboratory Director at Indo Nippon IVF Clinic IVF in Mumbai. India.