Just As Well, The Women's Health Podcast - The Smartest Age to Consider Egg Freezing, According to a Gynaecologist

Episode Date: December 8, 2020

Hello! Ahead of our weekly episode drop on Thursday, here’s what's coming up on this week’s show. We’re tackling the topic of fertility; putting your questions direct to a doctor and a nutritionist, who both specialise in helping couples conceive. Here’s what one of our experts, obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Larisa Corda, wants women considering egg freezing - now or in the future - to know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're tackling the topic of fertility with a doctor and a nutritionist, and like we did with skincare last month, we've handed the questioning reins over to you. Here's what one expert, Dr Larissa Corder, wants women to know when considering egg freezing. The general rule of thumb with this is to do it sooner rather than later. Now, what you don't want to do is do it too soon. You know, maybe when you're in your 20s,

when actually there's a really high chance that you might go on and meet a partner to settle down with. And actually, you will never have needed to have done the egg freezing in itself. And therefore, you know, it's something that you would have spent money on to safeguard, but you won't necessarily use it. And let's face it, you know, egg freezing is an expensive process. And you may need to do several rounds of it. Sometimes one round isn't enough.

Likewise, what you don't want to do is act too late. So generally speaking, above the age of 40, it can start to get really difficult because there may not be enough eggs to freeze. And also the quality of those eggs, even if we do freeze them, may not be good enough. But the problem is that you may lull yourself into this false sense of feeling, okay, well, you know, I've got 10 eggs frozen, I should be fine. I've done, you know, three rounds of egg freezing. I should be okay to have children whenever you're planning. Catch the full thing on Thursday.