Why the egg freezing industry is booming
Spring Fertility, a clinic in Midtown Manhattan, looks like where the main characters of "Broad City" would have ended up if the millennial sitcom had made an episode about egg freezing . The waiting room contains books by U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and Instagram Poet Laureate Rupi Kaur. The kitchen is equipped with Spindrift. A conference room also serves as a venue for “shot parties,” less noisy than they might seem, where patients inject fertility drugs in community, with encouragement from staff.
< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Spring's New York City medical director Catha Fischer, dressed in a loose blouse and low ponytail, beamed as she showed me the phlebotomy stations and operating room , where patients are anesthetized so that a doctor can pierce their ovaries with a needle and suck out the eggs. for freezing. The room, Dr. Fischer noted, “looks like an operating room from Grey’s Anatomy.” »There's always a market for products, from skin care to weight loss, promising to make life easier. the anxiety of femininity. Efforts to slow down the reproductive clock are no different. The egg retrieval industry is thriving, among the privileged group of people who can access it.
At Spring clinics nationwide, the number of egg retrieval cycles Egg freezing undertaken last year jumped 37. percent from the previous year. This increase is visible in fertility clinics across the country, according to data from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. The prototype patient also appears to be getting younger, doctors say, a change that coincides with a steady increase in company benefits that cover fertility preservation. In 2015, only 5% of large employers covered egg freezing; in 2023, almost one in five people have done so.
At spring fertility in Midtown Manhatta...
Spring Fertility, a clinic in Midtown Manhattan, looks like where the main characters of "Broad City" would have ended up if the millennial sitcom had made an episode about egg freezing . The waiting room contains books by U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and Instagram Poet Laureate Rupi Kaur. The kitchen is equipped with Spindrift. A conference room also serves as a venue for “shot parties,” less noisy than they might seem, where patients inject fertility drugs in community, with encouragement from staff.
< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Spring's New York City medical director Catha Fischer, dressed in a loose blouse and low ponytail, beamed as she showed me the phlebotomy stations and operating room , where patients are anesthetized so that a doctor can pierce their ovaries with a needle and suck out the eggs. for freezing. The room, Dr. Fischer noted, “looks like an operating room from Grey’s Anatomy.” »There's always a market for products, from skin care to weight loss, promising to make life easier. the anxiety of femininity. Efforts to slow down the reproductive clock are no different. The egg retrieval industry is thriving, among the privileged group of people who can access it.
At Spring clinics nationwide, the number of egg retrieval cycles Egg freezing undertaken last year jumped 37. percent from the previous year. This increase is visible in fertility clinics across the country, according to data from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. The prototype patient also appears to be getting younger, doctors say, a change that coincides with a steady increase in company benefits that cover fertility preservation. In 2015, only 5% of large employers covered egg freezing; in 2023, almost one in five people have done so.
At spring fertility in Midtown Manhatta...
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