If you can, you should freeze your eggs

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I recommend you get your eggs frozen. Yes, even if you're in your early twenties. It's definitely an expensive process that is uncomfortable. But it's also cool technology. It will provide a lot of peace of mind if you know you want to have kids eventually, but not now. Even if it doesn't work out for you, you'll learn a decent amount about your natural fertility – I couldn't complete my egg-freezing cycle, but the information I learned from it was very valuable in planning my life and career. As a society, we haven't figured out how to make female fertility less fickle. In an ideal world we would be able to create eggs from skin cells and gestate embryos in artificial wombs, bringing the human costs of pregnancy to zero. I hope that's the world my children and grandchildren live in, but it's not the one we live in today. Today, if you don't have eggs frozen and you get ovarian cancer, or want to take testosterone, you lose the ability to have a natural child. Even absent catastrophic

If: you are in your twenties or early thirties, you are a person who has periods and will go into menopause, you have a good job with either fertility benefits or enough pay for you to cover costs out-of-pocket and you can spend a few months in a city with a good fertility clinic, I recommend you get your eggs frozen. Yes, even if you're in your early twenties. It's definitely an expensive process that is uncomfortable. But it's also cool technology. It will provide a lot of peace of mind if you know you want to have kids eventually, but not now. Even if it doesn't work out for you,…

If you can, you should freeze your eggs

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