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Extend Fertility > Female
Biological Clock
Female Biological Clock
Freezing eggs offers women
planning to have children after the age of 35 the opportunity to
effectively slow down the biological clock.
Extend Fertility is a company created and run by women dedicated to
providing women with a way to pause the biological clock. In waiting
longer to have children, many women face the real challenge of having
successful, healthy pregnancies later in life. While we have made great
strides in other areas, our fertility is still limited by basic biology
– the biological clock generally stops ticking in our late 30’s or early
40’s. Our opportunities are endless, but our egg supply and quality are
not.
Comprised of professional women in our 20’s & 30’s, the Extend team is
keenly aware of the increased opportunities available to today’s women,
and the conflict these opportunities can create with the reality of the
biological clock and female fertility. By developing a medical solution
to the ticking biological clock and effectively extending a woman’s
fertility, we are proud to provide proactive women with more
reproductive options than ever before. Freezing eggs offers women
planning to have children after the age of 35 the opportunity to
effectively slow down their biological clocks. Extend Fertility’s
service gives women the unprecedented chance to store their eggs during
their reproductive prime for use when they wish to start or expand their
families.
A recent Extend Fertility client comments: “I feel truly
amazing…Relieved! I work in the women’s health care arena so I’m
constantly bombarded with the scary biological clock story. I realized
last week that I was listening to yet another horrifying presentation on
the perils facing future mothers over 30 and for the first time I didn’t
having a panic attack! I realized that I had taken control and done what
I could to ensure the best chance of having a healthy and happy baby in
the future. It’s also really nice that now thinking about having a
family brings a sense of excitement because it just seems like much more
of a reality and not a deadline that I am terrified of missing.”
What is a woman’s natural biological clock?
When it comes to issues of fertility, it is the age of the egg, not the
age of the woman that matters most. Women are born with a finite number
of eggs, around 1 million. At puberty, that number has dwindled to
400,000 and subsequently approximately 750 eggs are lost each month. The
eggs not only begin to diminish in quantity, but also in quality. The
combination of these factors leads to a woman’s fertility beginning to
decline in her 20’s and significantly deteriorating after age 35.
Read Recent Articles and News Releases
about Solutions to the Biological Clock:
Oocyte Cryopreservation - Stopping the Biological Clock
By Dr. Brad Kolb, Huntington Reproductive Center and Christy Jones, CEO
Extend Fertility
For decades, sperm and embryos (fertilized eggs) have been successfully
frozen for the purposes of fertility preservation and donation for men
and couples. Although both sperm and embryo cryopreservation have become
commonplace, the freezing of unfertilized oocytes (or eggs) for similar
applications in women has not historically delivered the acceptable
success rates necessary to drive adoption across the board. Unlike sperm
and embryos, oocytes did not survive the freeze/thaw process well
primarily because the egg is the largest cell in the human body and
comprised mostly of water. The water inside the cell forms ice crystals
that destroy the egg during the traditional freezing process. Prior to
2002, the success rate of live births from frozen eggs was 1-3%
globally, with few babies born from frozen eggs over decades of
attempts. Fortunately, a number of advances in our knowledge of oocyte
physiology and laboratory techniques are rapidly changing this dream
into a reality.
Read more with link to: What
Every Woman Should Know About Fertility and Her Biological Clock
Extend Fertility Helps Women to Put the Biological Clock on “Ice"
Extend Fertility is pleased to announce the availability of a new
service designed to help women safeguard their younger, healthier eggs
for the time when they are ready to start their families. The service
effectively slows the biological clock and increases the chances of
having a genetically-linked child after 40. Having the option to
proactively plan for future motherhood is expected to appeal to a broad
range of women- from cancer patients facing chemotherapy and women
facing family histories of pre-mature ovarian failure, to single,
professional women and couples starting their families later in life.
Extend Fertility is dedicated to enriching women’s lives through
revolutionary science and unparalleled service that gives women the
option to effectively slow down the biological clock. The company brings
together industry-leading science, medical care and storage facilities.
By combining these critical elements with our outstanding educational
resources and client services.
Read more with link to:
http://www.extendfertility.com/downloads/documents/Clock_on_Ice_release.pdf
Huntington Reproductive Center and Extend Fertility™ to Help Women
Stop the Ticking of the “Biological Clock"
“The days of the biological clock are over,” says Bradford Kolb, MD,
Huntington Reproductive Center. “In the past, women were bound by the
limitations of time when it came to their reproductive choices. Women
who wanted to get pregnant later in life were faced with egg quality
issues. Now they have the option of extending their fertility by
preserving their eggs at a time when they are much healthier. It’s quite
remarkable.”
Read more with link to:
http://www.extendfertility.com/downloads/documents/HRC_release.pdf
Extend Fertility and Texas Fertility Center Help Women Slow the
Ticking of the Biological Clock
Extend Fertility™, a key provider of fertility preservation technologies
and services, and Texas Fertility Center announced a unique, exclusive
partnership to provide egg freezing services to women in Texas. The
service will allow women to pause the biological clock and proactively
plan for the future - just as they plan for personal and professional
development - by freezing and storing their young, healthy eggs for the
time when they are ready to start their families. Texas Fertility Center
will be the first center in Texas to offer the Extend Fertility
egg-freezing service to both fertile and medical necessity patients.
Read more with link to
http://www.extendfertility.com/downloads/documents/ExtendFertilityandTexasFertilityCenter.pdf
Introducing LaterBaby.org: A New Educational web site for young women
who want children in the future.
Laterbaby.org offers access to information about the reality of the
biological clock and quick references on a number of factors that can
impact a woman’s future fertility, presented in an informal and
easy-to-understand language. In addition to the information on the
“biological clock,” LaterBaby.org offers features designed to create a
community of women who care about their future fertility.
Read more with link to:
http://www.extendfertility.com/downloads/documents/EF_Laterbaby_launch.pdf
ABOUT EXTEND FERTILITY
Extend Fertility is dedicated to enriching women’s lives through
revolutionary science and unparalleled service that gives women the
option to effectively slow down the biological clock. The company brings
together industry-leading science, medical care and storage facilities.
By combining these critical elements with our outstanding educational
resources and client services, Extend Fertility offers women the leading
fertility preservation experience available today. For more information,
visit www.extendfertility.com.
Extend Fertility, Inc.
329 Washington Street | Suite 200 | Woburn, Massachusetts MA
(USA) 01801
Phone: (800) 841-7197 | Outside U.S.: (617) 987-0506 |
Fax: (617) 987-2137
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"I felt very supported by
the women at Extend. They were my partners in this adventure and
gave me the power to have more choices in the future."
—
Megan, Age 36
Extend Fertility Client
Seattle, WA
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