{"id":117,"date":"2004-08-04T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T21:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2004-08-04T15:18:25","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T21:18:25","slug":"egg-freezing-for-fertility-offers-hope-and-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/04\/egg-freezing-for-fertility-offers-hope-and-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"Egg-freezing for fertility offers hope &#8211; and hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marie McCullough in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/\">Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>guring out how to freeze a woman&#8217;s eggs so she can look forward to making babies with Mr. Right, even if he doesn&#8217;t show up until she&#8217;s halfway to retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Egg-freezing is suddenly the subject of advertisements, talk shows, magazine articles, and even a fledgling chain of cryo-egg franchises.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds great, but women who grab the option right away should not expect to extend anything, except maybe their credit card limit.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 120 frozen-egg babies have been born worldwide since the first one in 1985 &#8211; too few, experts say, to rule out genetic risks. While egg-preservation technology is improving, it remains hit-or-miss, and most clinics offering it commercially have not had much practice, let alone produced a cryo-egg baby.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/philly\/news\/9296249.htm?1c\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie McCullough in Philadelphia Inquirer reports: guring out how to freeze a woman&#8217;s eggs so she can look forward to making babies with Mr. Right, even if he doesn&#8217;t show up until she&#8217;s halfway&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}