Should You Freeze Your Eggs? Egg Freezing, Fertility & Your Biological Clock | Birth, Baby! Ep 213

What does egg freezing actually look like, and who should consider it?

In this episode, Valerie Landis joins me to discuss the emotional, financial, and medical side of freezing your eggs, including what happens during stimulation and retrieval, why every cycle can produce very different results, and why the number of eggs retrieved does not guarantee a future baby.

We also get into egg freezing versus embryo freezing, the pressure of the biological clock, fertility injections, storage costs, and how preserving eggs can change the way someone thinks about dating and future parenthood. If you have ever wondered whether egg freezing is worth considering, what questions to ask, or what people often do not realize before they begin, this episode is a good place to start.

Valerie Landis is a women’s health executive, fertility advocate, doula, and one of the early voices helping bring egg freezing into the mainstream conversation. With more than two decades of experience in medical and healthcare sales, Valerie has worked across women’s health, fertility, reproductive medicine, maternity, pediatrics, oncology, and medical technology.

What makes Valerie’s perspective unique is the intersection of industry experience and lived experience. She has spent decades inside healthcare and she has personally gone through the fertility preservation process three times. Her mission is simple: to make fertility information less intimidating, more transparent, and easier for women to understand so they can make informed decisions about their reproductive futures. Valerie believes women deserve to know their options before they need them and to feel informed, empowered, and brave enough to take action on their own timeline.

Website: https://shor.by/valeriedlandis
IG: @valeriedlandis
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/valerielandis
YouTube: youtube.com/@valeriedlandis

Eggsperience  – Fertility and egg freezing educational website/blog
educational website to teach and inspire women to learn about their reproductive health options such as egg freezing, cryopreservation, and family planning choices
Website: eggsperience.com
FB: /eggsperience
IG: @eggsperience_

Eggology Club Podcast  – podcast and educational experiences
Website: EggologyClub.com
FB: /eggologyclub
Group: facebook.com/groups/EggologyClub
IG: @eggologyclub
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eggology-club/id1263363904

This Is Egg Freezing – TIEF video docu-series and film is about egg freezing, fertility, path to parenthood and the different journey women can take
Website: ThisIsEggFreezing.com
FB: /thisiseggfreezing
IG: @thisiseggfreezing

{her}strategies  – Doula, Fertility, Birth, Postpartum, counseling
Website: herstrategies.com
FB: /herstrategies
IG: @herstrategies

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