Being Proactive!

 I am turning forty in about a month and a half.  Most women dread this number, but I am looking forward to it.  I am done having babies, and the babies I do have are about grown.  I'm lucky.  Some women try their whole lives and never have one baby, let alone three.  These days, there are so many options available for women who want to have children.  Women of all ages are now freezing their eggs, though it seems more and more women are doing it while they are younger to use at a future time. 

I was never into having a career.  I always wanted to be a mom.  But, some women put their careers first, and then find that when they are ready to have kids, their biological clocks are no longer cooperative.  It's women like this, among others, that are being proactive, and freezing their eggs while they are still young.  Of course, there are also women who donate their eggs to women who can not produce their own, and a lot of these eggs are frozen as well.  It's funny.  I have heard of sperm banks before, but never about places that store a women's eggs.  It makes sense now that I think about it, though.

Some people may be uneducated about the whole thing (like myself), and there is a ton of information available about the safety of egg freezing.  It's pretty interesting stuff, too.  Nowadays, couples who can not conceive have so many options.  I remember when adoption was the only way for infertile couples to become parents.   Having carried three children myself, I can understand a women wanting to carry a baby herself.  All this new technology has done wonders for making that a possibility.

Thankfully, I didn't have problems getting pregnant, and I hope my girls have just as easy a time when they decide to have families of their own.  I just hope they don't make that decision for many, many years.