Special Report: Holding off on motherhood

how about both – just farther apart! more and more women are opting to freeze their eggs and delay pregnancies, and tonight, i’d like to tell you about the risks and rewards of making babies — later. it’s a story you’ll see only on abc-7. fans of the bachelor waited with bated breath to see who chris soules would chose as his soulmate. whitney bishoff accepted the ring and announced to the world … “lets make babies” whitney, a fertility nurse – knows that women’s eggs get old so even before she met mr. wonderful – she had hers frozen for later use. sot: It’s an insurance policy, i hope i never get to use. an insurance policy that starts in places like this… a fertility lab. making a baby is a complicated process — even with help. a 12 year old girl has about 200,000 eggs. by the time she’s 50 all of them are gone. el paso doesn’t have any clinics that perform the vitrification process that uses anti-freeze substances to preserve eggs for an undetermined number of years – like bishop did. the southwest center for reproductive health freezes eggs, sperm and embryos through a slow freezing process, stores them here and then sends them off to clinics elsewhere. harvested eggs are kept here — and only the strongest ones will make it in the end. “Say you have 12 eggs, ten will mature, 8 fertilize, 3 go on to blastocites and continue to develop. So there is an attrition rate and you try give them everything they need. embyologist lyla wagleyn doesn’t have children of her own and considers her babies do you talk to them, yes, sing, not a good singer but they don’t have ears, i think the contact, they want to feel cared for. The best eggs are from a woman from 20 to 24 how long can you freeze them ten 15 years. We don’t know they end point. the end point is what bothers fertility doctor and founder of the center luis noble. he doesn’t advocate putting off motherhood. Saving the eggs for that purpose doesn’t guarantee you anything. a lot of people fee i’m going to bank my eggs and they’re going to be good forever,and the answer is no, i don’t think so. nobody guarantees one of those eggs will make a baby. dr noble says it’s an expensive crapshoot. the entire process can cost up to 12- thousand dollars. ‘One cycle of eggs does not guarantee you’re going to get pregnant. it gives you a false sense of security and is associated with more medical issues. the older the mother the higher the risk of cardiovascular disease and bring a baby to full term. egg freezing can cost up to 22- thousand dollars to harvest and freeze eggs for 5 years and is not covered by insurance. there are moral and ethical issues to medically delaying pregnancy and challenging mother nature’s process and timeline. ..and for modern family’s sophia vergara it’s also a legal issue. she and her ex fiancee are fighting over two frozen embryos.