Why Women Are Freezing Their Eggs

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Why Women Are Freezing Their Eggs Enlarge Photo Why Women Are Freezing Their Eggs

Camilla Webster, Forbes.com

Some game-changing fertility technology is promising to let your baby-bearing clock tick well past the witching hour. Extend Fertility Centers, an egg-harvesting, freezing and storage company, can't put an infant in your crib, but it promises to keep your eggs safe until pregnancy becomes an option. An ambitious young businesswoman can now jockey for the corner suite while putting her future family on ice.

We spoke with a financial-services executive we'll call Hillary, to conceal her identity, about her decision two years ago, at 39, to have her eggs harvested and stored at an Extend Facility center. She learned about the egg-freezing technology through an obstetrician friend and used $20,000 of her Wall Street bonus to go through two cycles of the procedure. She now has more than 20 eggs at the ready for use when the time is right. "You're 23, and you look at the managing director who's 40 and has no kids," says Hillary. "And you're, like, oh, she's thrown it all away. Well, it's not the case, reproductive technology being what it is. Totally not the case."