You Want to Build Your Family, But Do You Know Your Options?

I worked at a really large IVF program.

Really, really reputable, wonderful program for many, many years before starting this practice.

And one of maybe some of the best work I ever got to do was I got to formalize the fertility preservation program there.

This was like in 2011, 2012.

And back then we would do an egg freezing case here and there because the patient was having cancer treatment soon, but a patient who's seeking fertility preservation for a medical indication.

is so different from a patient who has been experiencing infertility and now is seeking fertility treatment.

They haven't had time to look this up.

They haven't had time to think about this.

They're often young.

They often really have not contemplated their future family building.

So what I did in that role now almost 15 years ago was build patient education materials, build a workflow that works for these patients that were considerate of the timeline.

And we're providing the amount of information they need now to decide how to make this decision.

You don't need to decide how many kids you're having.

You don't need to decide what fertility treatment you're doing 10 years from now.

You need to decide like, does this feel aligned with my overall goal? Does this give me the flexibility that I'm looking for in the future? And I've kind of carried that on to what we do here.

you know, often this is the case.

And I think maybe the media has sort of shown this too, that sperm has become like a pretty hot topic lately.

We're just on like a 15 year delay from, you know, fertility preservation for egg providers.

Now we're talking a lot more about it with sperm providers.

So just, you know, we're getting around to it.

I love that.

Well, and again, I mean, Yes, you're so right.

Because I do think when you hear fertility preservation, I think a lot of people automatically, yes, they think they think about the woman they think about, you know, oh, the biological clock is ticking.

And, you know, and like you said, it is.

it's a different approach for, for each, but I love the fact that it could be, yes, a medical diagnosis that is having you, you know, is the catalyst for you to go forward with sperm freezing, or it could be I'm 35 and I don't know.