Egg freezing is on the rise. Emotional support for the process is needed but may be hard to find. Here's how to find and build an online community of support.
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When she was 39, Betsy Ducat, a 48-year-old from Hoboken, New Jersey, decided to freeze her eggs. I wasn t in a committed relationship and I wasn t at a point where I was ready to take the leap and have a baby on my own, she says.
Freezing your eggs can be a game changer for reproductive capabilities. It s essentially a way to press pause on your fertility, explains Thomas Kim, M.D., a reproductive endocrinologist with RMA, a fertility care company with clinics and labs around the country. And women freeze their eggs for a number of reasons: because they re pursuing professional and educational goals, they re not ready to have children, or they don t have a partner yet, says Dr. Kim.