Re: Grandparents want daughters to freeze eggs

Its crazy. Kind of makes me very sad.

We already KNOW that there is a large increase for severe birth
defects when using artificial insemination.

On May 14, 3:31 pm, EARL DOYLE <lesjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> why would grandparents wish their daughters freeze their eggs
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> i don't have a clue
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> On 5/14/12, Leader of 71 <lesjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >    So Eager for Grandchildren, They're Paying the Egg-Freezing Clinic
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> > 'It's a family decision. Because you're talking about your future family.
> > Grandchildren are really important to parents. Everybody wants to
> > experience being a grandparent.' *JENNIFER HAYES*, with her mother, Gloria,
> > left, who paid for her egg freezing, in Darien, Conn.
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> > At the Colorado Center for Reproductive
> > Medicine<http://www.colocrm.com/Home.aspx>,
> > a popular destination for women hoping to preserve their fertility by
> > freezing their eggs, Dr. William Schoolcraft, the founder and medical
> > director, has started to notice something different: more of the women are
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> > "I see these patients come in, and they're with two elderly people, and I'm
> > like, 'What the hey?' " Dr. Schoolcraft said.
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> > The gray-haired entourages, it turns out, are the parents, tagging along to
> > lend support — emotional and often financial — as their daughters turn to
> > the fledgling field of egg freezing to improve their chances of having
> > children later on, when they are ready to start a family.
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> > The technology to freeze a woman's delicate eggs to be used later, when the
> > eggs being released by her ovaries may no longer be viable, has improved
> > sharply over the past decade. There currently is no single source of data
> > on the number of women who are choosing to freeze their eggs, but doctors
> > in the United States say the practice is slowly growing.
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> > The procedure remains expensive, generally costing between $8,000 and
> > $18,000. And because it offers no guarantees and is still considered
> > experimental by the American Society for Reproductive
> > Medicine<http://www.asrm.org/>,
> > a professional association, it can seem to some like an extravagant gamble.
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> > But it is a gamble that many would-be grandparents are willing to take with
> > their daughters, even if it means navigating a potentially uncomfortable
> > conversation.
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> > "By the time Allison was 35, I felt the clock was tick-tick-ticking," said
> > Candace Kramer, 61, whose daughter took her up on the suggestion to freeze
> > her eggs — and her offer to pay half the bill. "I viewed it as opening up
> > an opportunity for her."
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> > Such arrangements are not unusual, said Dr. Daniel Shapiro, the medical
> > director of Reproductive Biology
> > Associates<http://rba-online.com/ivf/index.php>of Atlanta. He estimated that
> > at least three quarters of his center's
> > egg-freezing patients — more than 100 over the past two years — have
> > parents who paid part or all of the bill.
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> > "I was surprised at first about the parental involvement, but now I expect
> > it to be the case," said Dr. Shapiro, adding that many patients tell him,
> > "My parents want me to have this as a gift."
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> > His center, along with an offshoot called My Egg Bank North
> > America<http://www.myeggbank.com/donor-eggs/index.php>,
> > are trying to make it easier, and less uncomfortable, for family members to
> > pay for the procedure, marketing the "Gift of Hope": a gift certificate and
> > a silver charm bracelet for the recipients.
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> > Rachel Lehmann-Haupt <http://www.lehmannhaupt.com>, author of "In Her Own
> > Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and
> > Motherhood," described conversations about fertility between women and
> > their parents as "the postmodern, adult birds-and-the-bees talk."
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> > She added, "There is a very fine line between concern and pressure."
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> > Gloria Hayes, who lives in Darien, Conn., bit her tongue for months after
> > hearing about egg freezing, hoping that her daughter Jennifer, a
> > restaurateur in Telluride, Colo., would broach the topic herself.
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> > "I just didn't feel right approaching her about it, because it's almost a
> > criticism in a way — 'You're getting old,' " Mrs. Hayes said. When Jennifer
> > finally floated the idea, "I was thrilled," Mrs. Hayes said. "I thought
> > this could just take a lot of the stress off her."
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> > Mrs. Hayes and her husband offered to pay for the procedure, but Jennifer
> > Hayes was initially reluctant to accept the money.
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> > "My mom said to me, 'Do you think we'd rather have this money sitting in an
> > account or have a potential grandchild someday?' " she recalled. "When she
> > positioned it that way, it somehow just changed the way I felt."
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> > "It's a family decision," said Ms. Hayes, 36, who now blogs about her
> > experience at RetrieveFreezeRelax.com <http://retrievefreezerelax.com/>.
> > "Because you're talking about your future family. Grandchildren are really
> > important to parents. Everybody wants to experience being a grandparent."
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> > Susan Lorman raised the idea of egg freezing when her daughter Stephanie, a
> > sales representative in Los Angeles, was over for dinner shortly before her
> > 35th birthday. Stephanie had just broken up with the latest in a string of
> > boyfriends and was in tears, distraught over what-if situations that
> > involved losing her shot at motherhood.
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