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Female Biological Clock
Introducing LaterBaby.org: A New Educational
web site for young women who want to learn more about the female
biological clock
Laterbaby.org offers access to information about the reality of the
biological clock and quick references on a number of factors that can
impact a woman’s future fertility, presented in an informal and
easy-to-understand language. In addition to the information on the
biological clock, LaterBaby.org offers features designed to create a
community of women who care about their future fertility.
Test your Biological
Clock IQ!
1The American Fertility Association; What Mother Didn't Tell You About Fertility... Because No One Ever Told Her
By Richard Scott Jr., MD and Pamela Madsen
Solutions to the Aging Biological Clock!
Freezing eggs offers women planning to have children after the age of
35 the opportunity to effectively slow down the biological clock.
Extend Fertility is a company created and run by women dedicated to
providing women with a way to pause the biological clock. In waiting
longer to have children, many women face the real challenge of having
successful, healthy pregnancies later in life. While we have made great
strides in other areas, our fertility is still limited by basic biology –
the biological clock generally stops ticking in our late 30’s or early
40’s. Our opportunities are endless, but our egg supply and quality are
not.
Comprised of professional women in our 20’s & 30’s, the Extend team is
keenly aware of the increased opportunities available to today’s women,
and the conflict these opportunities can create with the reality of the
biological clock and female fertility. By developing a medical solution to
the ticking biological clock and effectively extending a woman’s
fertility, we are proud to provide proactive women with more reproductive
options than ever before. Freezing eggs offers women planning to have
children after the age of 35 the opportunity to effectively slow down
their biological clocks. Extend Fertility’s service gives women the
unprecedented chance to store their eggs during their reproductive prime
for use when they wish to start or expand their families.
A recent Extend Fertility client comments: “I feel truly amazing…Relieved!
I work in the women’s health care arena so I’m constantly bombarded with
the scary biological clock story. I realized last week that I was
listening to yet another horrifying presentation on the perils facing
future mothers over 30 and for the first time I didn’t having a panic
attack! I realized that I had taken control and done what I could to
ensure the best chance of having a healthy and happy baby in the future.
It’s also really nice that now thinking about having a family brings a
sense of excitement because it just seems like much more of a reality and
not a deadline that I am terrified of missing.”
What is a woman’s natural biological clock?
When it comes to issues of fertility, it is the age of the egg, not the
age of the woman that matters most. Women are born with a finite number of
eggs, around 1 million. At puberty, that number has dwindled to 400,000
and subsequently approximately 750 eggs are lost each month. The eggs not
only begin to diminish in quantity, but also in quality. The combination
of these factors leads to a woman’s fertility beginning to decline in her
20’s and significantly deteriorating after age 35.
Read Recent Articles and News Releases about Solutions
to the Biological Clock:
Oocyte Cryopreservation – Stopping the Biological Clock
By Dr. Brad Kolb, Huntington Reproductive Center and Christy Jones, CEO
Extend Fertility
For decades, sperm and embryos (fertilized eggs) have been successfully
frozen for the purposes of fertility preservation and donation for men and
couples. Although both sperm and embryo cryopreservation have become
commonplace, the freezing of unfertilized oocytes (or eggs) for similar
applications in women has not historically delivered the acceptable
success rates necessary to drive adoption across the board. Unlike sperm
and embryos, oocytes did not survive the freeze/thaw process well
primarily because the egg is the largest cell in the human body and
comprised mostly of water. The water inside the cell forms ice crystals
that destroy the egg during the traditional freezing process. Prior to
2002, the success rate of live births from frozen eggs was 1-3% globally,
with few babies born from frozen eggs over decades of attempts.
Fortunately, a number of advances in our knowledge of oocyte physiology
and laboratory techniques are rapidly changing this dream into a reality.
Read more with link to: What
Every Woman Should Know About Fertility and Her Biological Clock
Extend Fertility Helps Women to Put the Biological Clock on “Ice"
Extend Fertility is pleased to announce the availability of a new service
designed to help women safeguard their younger, healthier eggs for the
time when they are ready to start their families. The service effectively
slows the biological clock and increases the chances of having a
genetically-linked child after 40. Having the option to proactively plan
for future motherhood is expected to appeal to a broad range of women-
from cancer patients facing chemotherapy and women facing family histories
of pre-mature ovarian failure, to single, professional women and couples
starting their families later in life.
Extend Fertility is dedicated to enriching women’s lives through
revolutionary science and unparalleled service that gives women the option
to effectively slow down the biological clock. The company brings together
industry-leading science, medical care and storage facilities. By
combining these critical elements with our outstanding educational
resources and client services.
Read more with link to:
http://www.extendfertility.com/downloads/documents/Clock_on_Ice_release.pdf
Huntington Reproductive Center and Extend Fertility™ to Help Women Stop
the Ticking of the “Biological Clock"
“The days of the biological clock are over,” says Bradford Kolb, MD,
Huntington Reproductive Center. “In the past, women were bound by the
limitations of time when it came to their reproductive choices. Women who
wanted to get pregnant later in life were faced with egg quality issues.
Now they have the option of extending their fertility by preserving their
eggs at a time when they are much healthier. It’s quite remarkable.”
Read more with link to:
http://www.extendfertility.com/downloads/documents/HRC_release.pdf
Extend Fertility and Texas Fertility Center Help Women Slow the Ticking
of the Biological Clock
Extend Fertility™, a key provider of fertility preservation technologies
and services, and Texas Fertility Center announced a unique, exclusive
partnership to provide egg freezing services to women in Texas. The
service will allow women to pause the biological clock and proactively
plan for the future - just as they plan for personal and professional
development - by freezing and storing their young, healthy eggs for the
time when they are ready to start their families. Texas Fertility Center
will be the first center in Texas to offer the Extend Fertility
egg-freezing service to both fertile and medical necessity patients.
Read more with link to
http://www.extendfertility.com/downloads/documents/ExtendFertilityandTexasFertilityCenter.pdf
Introducing LaterBaby.org: A New Educational web site for young women
who want children in the future.
Laterbaby.org offers access to information about the reality of the
biological clock and quick references on a number of factors that can
impact a woman’s future fertility, presented in an informal and
easy-to-understand language. In addition to the information on the
“biological clock,” LaterBaby.org offers features designed to create a
community of women who care about their future fertility.
Read more with link to:
http://www.extendfertility.com/downloads/documents/EF_Laterbaby_launch.pdf
ABOUT EXTEND FERTILITY
Extend Fertility is dedicated to enriching women’s lives through
revolutionary science and unparalleled service that gives women the option
to effectively slow down the biological clock. The company brings together
industry-leading science, medical care and storage facilities. By
combining these critical elements with our outstanding educational
resources and client services, Extend Fertility offers women the leading
fertility preservation experience available today. For more information,
visit www.extendfertility.com.
ABOUT LATERBABY.ORG
LaterBaby is a resource for saavy, smart young women who one day would
like a family. Our mission is to educate women on all aspects of the
biological clock and female fertility, to be a resource for information
and perspective on the latest advances in reproductive science, and to be
an advocate for women who would like society, corporate America, and the
government to recognize how the realities of female fertility impact us
all.
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