Egg Freezing

Would-be grandparents pay for their daughters’ egg freezing

Jared Yee | 19 May 2012

More and more baby-boomers, desperate to have grandchildren, are pushing daughters to freeze their eggs, the New York Times reports.

Are older mums selfish?

Michael Cook | 22 October 2011

An Australian obstetrician was heaped with scorn and ridicule earlier this month when he declared that women who deferred having children until their mid-30s were ''selfish and self-centred''. Barry Walters, of King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, said that they tended to have more medical problems and would be a burden on their children in their twilight years.

Egg freezing now viable option, says British expert

Michael Cook | 08 September 2011

Egg freezing has become a viable option for younger women who want to delay having children, says IVF specialist Gillian Lockwood in the journal Reproductive Biomedicine (subscription required).