The answer to the ever-ticking biological clock is the woman who can freeze her eggs – and serve as her own future egg donor.
They are the size of half of this comma, but people go to any lengths to find them, in the hope of becoming parents. Women are in a tight squeeze; having children too early might be irresponsible, but having them too late may be impossible.
We meet Dr Victor Hulme, Gynaecologist and Specialist in Reproductive Medicine, at Aevitas Fertility Clinic, South Africa’s oldest fertility clinic in Cape Town. Dressed in blue scrubs, he has just finished a procedure.
Twenty-five years of In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) experience under his belt have taught him the chief enemy is time. Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have and will lose them steadily as they age; making it hard to conceive.
“Typically, if we do IVF, if a woman is 30 years old, our life birth rate is almost 50% off one treatment. If a woman is 40 years old, then it drops to about 25% per treatment cycle,” he says.
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