E11 featuring Lauren Hoare and Maddie Knowles: Egg-freezing for thirty-somethings

Not everyone is ready to have a baby when their bodies are in peak-fertility mode. Increasingly women are deciding to have their eggs-frozen, to buy themselves time to be ready to have a family, as female bodies' fertility diminishes at a younger age than male bodies. But this is a costly process, not just financially, although it does cost in the region of £10k for the collection and storage, but emotionally and physically too. Today I talk to Lauren Hoare and Maddie Knowles about their thought process they are going through as thirty-something women, not currently ready to start a family, but who do not want that option to be closed off to them. Business really need to catch up, and so do private medical and other insurance products, around helping women to preserve their fertility. Listen to the end when Lauren and Maddie share some practical, insightful ideas about how outcomes for women who are not ready to have children can be improved by organisations and society overall. For more information there are resources recommended by Lauren and Maddie: https://www.hfea.gov.uk/treatments/fertility-preservation/egg-freezing/ Vicky Pattison's story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-65835541