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    Would You Freeze Your Eggs If Your Boss Told You To?

    By TheBump.com | Parenting – Mon, Feb 6, 2012 2:47 PM EST

    Sounds crazy, but some bosses (like Diane Sawyer!) actually encourage it.

    By Sarah Yang for TheBump.com

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    Vitrification (a technique for freezing unfertilized eggs) has become a popular thing among career-driven, busy women who aren't ready to have a baby but want one eventually. It's so popular, in fact, that even bosses are encouraging it! According to Newsweek, news anchor Diane Sawyer sends her hard-working employees (who have a difficult time getting away from the office to meet a partner and have kids) to New York University's Fertility Center.

    Fertility treatments for $5 and up

    Women have been flocking to fertility clinics because they aren't ready to have children yet but want to at some point, and some are even sent by their well-meaning parents who want to be grandparents one day. This procedure doesn't come cheap, though. It's around $15,000 for one cycle, where 10 to 20 eggs are frozen -- leaving career-focused women who are on a budget with fewer options.

    But what exactly are the pros and cons to your boss encouraging you to freeze your eggs? Here are a couple we came up with:

    Pro: Your boss actually does care about you!
    Con: Your boss cares, but she's not going to make your workload lighter so you can have free time to meet the man of your dreams and have babies anytime soon.

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    Pro: Your boss knows you're committed to your job and that you work hard.
    Con: While your boss knows you're focused, she's not expecting you to slow down until you're 40-plus and ready to unfreeze your eggs.

    Pro: It means you're close enough with your boss that she feels it's okay to give you some pretty personal advice.
    Con: Um, she's giving you advice about your reproductive organs. You might be spending half of your year-end review discussing in detail how they froze your eggs. Awkward.

    Pro: Your boss will probably be sending you to a reputable clinic -- she's got all the connections.
    Con: She's probably not going to pay for it.


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    2 comments

    • Have hope
      Have hope  •  Rockwall, Texas  •  3 months ago
      No, I would never freeze my eggs and certainly not if my boss told me to.
      I think it's unnatural and too "planned-out". Child planning should just be a natural thing.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  New York, New York  •  3 months ago
      As I sit here, a 34 & 1/2 year old unmarried, childless woman, I can honestly say no, I wouldn't freeze my eggs. I think it's great that there are women in the workplace who have figured out how to balance career and family (a balance that may or may not include freezing their eggs so as to have the career while they're young but still have a family when they're ready) and it's great that they're telling other women that there is a way to have it all, the career, a family.

      But I don't know if or when I want a child. If I were to freeze my eggs and then decide I don't want a child, what would I do with the frozen eggs? Would they be destroyed? Would that be murder? Could I give them to my sister who wants to have a family but can't have her own children? Could I sell them? If I did sell them, who in their right mind would buy them?

      I can have a child if I want one. If I decide I want a child & it's too late for the old-fashioned way, I can adopt a child. I can apply to be a foster parent and have a house full of children.
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