Jul 2, 2026 · 33 min · 10 segments
Egg freezing is often talked about, but what does the process actually involve? What can fertility tests really tell you? And should…
Temeka ZoreGuest
Neha PathakHost
So let's start there and really help people understand what is actually happening to our egg quality, quantity over the course of our lives, from the beginning when we're born to when we get to our 20s and 30s.
And over time, we are just going through all those eggs, thousands at a time, until we eventually have no more eggs and we go through menopause.
So our fertility is much different than male fertility, where they are reproducing sperm all the time.
And so women have this finite period of time where you're thinking about having kids and also where your fertility is kind of at your peak fertility.
And so it's, like, always a combination of if you're not quite ready to have kids, what are options we can do to take so that you have those options in the future?
That peak fertility is usually in our late 20s to very early 30s, and for a lot of women, they're just not ready to have kids yet.
So then it's a question of talking about in your-- to yourself of how many kids do you think you may want? Do you even want kids? And when do you think you want to have them? And that lets you and your provider kind of build a plan for what your options could look like.
So let's start there and really help people understand what is actually happening to our egg quality, quantity over the course of our lives, from the beginning when we're born to when we get to our 20s and 30s.
And over time, we are just going through all those eggs, thousands at a time, until we eventually have no more eggs and we go through menopause.
So our fertility is much different than male fertility, where they are reproducing sperm all the time.
And so women have this finite period of time where you're thinking about having kids and also where your fertility is kind of at your peak fertility.
And so it's, like, always a combination of if you're not quite ready to have kids, what are options we can do to take so that you have those options in the future?
That peak fertility is usually in our late 20s to very early 30s, and for a lot of women, they're just not ready to have kids yet.
So then it's a question of talking about in your-- to yourself of how many kids do you think you may want? Do you even want kids? And when do you think you want to have them? And that lets you and your provider kind of build a plan for what your options could look like.
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