Faith Salie Comes Out On Her Choice To Undergo Egg Freezing

(If the blog radio program comes on, please go to the Oct. 1st blog & pause it. I will be keeping the show up for the month of October.)

Dear Readers,

For those of you who missed this, Faith Salie, a multi-talented American writer, television and radio host decided to "come out" regarding her decision to freeze her eggs. Her experience was filmed and shown on CBS's Sunday Morning Show on October 10th. Her slightly tongue-in-cheek account has a powerful message, nonetheless, and that is, "Choice". Now, young women do have a choice to prolong their fertility. It is not inexpensive but those who never had this choice and are now faced with undergoing multiple IVF cycles or using donor eggs would probably be the ones to tell you that they wished they would have had this opportunity. The development of better ART to freeze and thaw has made egg freezing a reality, a viable option for women like Faith Salie.

As she put it in her piece for CBS:

"Let’s talk eggs.

Not the ones on your breakfast plate. No, the ones I have frozen at the NYU Fertility Center.I want to talk about egg freezing, because I don’t think enough young-ish women know about it. I even made a video diary of my eggs-perience, in which I chose to shoot myself up with fertility drugs, visit my doctor twice a day for bloodwork and ultrasounds, and check myself into the hospital for the big retrieval.

I knew two things: I really, really want to have a baby; and I really, really don’t know who should be the father. Now I know a third thing: The option to freeze one’s eggs is just about the most empowering choice a single woman who knows she wants to be a mother can make."