Dr. Lucky Sekhon

You know, there are many headlines that are negative that say it's not all it's cracked up to be, pun intended.

But it's because people don't realize that human reproduction isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Like a lot of people, when they start trying, they're like, oh, I used ovulation predictor kit.

Why didn't I get pregnant that first month?

And then when I tell them,

Even in your 20s, it's a 20% chance that all these things would have lined up.

It's like playing the slots.

That's why it's really about the lucky egg and making it past all of those different hurdles.

And as we get older, that percent chance goes down because the chance of that egg that you ovulated being healthy goes down, right?

And so it's really understanding that just because you did this process, which is often very expensive, it can be covered by insurance, but sometimes it's not, people will have this feeling of, well, I put all this effort and time into this, it needs to be a guarantee.

And I always say, you're still working within the confines of a very inefficient system.

And instead of having one long shot, like what you ovulate each month,

Maybe we're freezing 15 to 20 long shots.

But you need to think of them that way.

There might be a 10 to 1 ratio of eggs to get to one live birth.

And that's why when it comes to egg freezing, you have many steps to get through.

You have to come back and thaw those eggs, fertilize them, grow them for a week into embryos.

Maybe you'll test them, maybe you won't.

I usually recommend testing.

And so if you might start out with this many and end up with this much.