As women age, the likelihood of becoming pregnant decreases. Believe it or not, women are typically born with between 1 to 2 million eggs. However, as they age, these eggs die off naturally and leave each woman with approximately 500,000 eggs by the time they reach puberty.
Once a female enters her 30s and 40s,
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Many people ask the question, should I start the process of egg freezing in Overland Park? Is it the right time?
If you have asked yourself these questions and know that you want to have a child someday, but you can’t right now, then egg freezing in Overland Park might be for you.
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Do you have a strong desire to have children, but you know the timing just isn’t right? Then freezing your eggs might be for you. Egg freezing in Overland Park is growing in popularity for many reasons. Some women are building their careers and not yet ready to have children, but know they want them in the future.
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Find answers to egg freezing FAQs
Technological advances have allowed Dan Gehlbach MD to offer our patients the latest fertility treatments, including fertility preservation via egg freezing. Thanks to vitrification, a rapid freezing process, we can utilize egg freezing to help our patients conceive when the time is right for them. Our Kansas fertility center expert is offering answers to egg freezing FAQs so that our patients can make informed decisions about fertility preservation.
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Department of Defense to cover sperm and egg freezing for active-duty military
Recently, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that the Department of Defense will start a 2-year pilot program to cover the cost of sperm and egg freezing for active-duty service members.
According to Carter, the program has two goals: (1) to “help our men and women preserve their ability to start a family,
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A healthy 20-year-old woman who is trying to get pregnant has a 20% chance of conceiving each month, but by age 40, that rate drops to less than 5%.
Egg freezing has been viewed as one of the best fertility options available to women. Women in their late 20s or early 30s who do not anticipate starting a family before their mid-30s will oftentimes go through a process to extract and freeze their healthy eggs,
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