Dr. Lucky Sekhon

That is the mind of a fertility doctor.

But I didn't tell her to go straight to it.

And I don't think it would have been unreasonable for her to say, hey, I really want to avoid the elevated risk of miscarriage.

it could also work, right?

And then she could keep those embryos for baby number two or three if that's what she wants to do, because guess what?

This is the best piece of uplifting information that I want to share is that your uterus doesn't really age.

So the age you are when you come back to use your frozen eggs or embryos doesn't factor into the equation as much.

Of course, we're up against, you know, being older and having maybe a higher risk of certain complications.

We have to be watched more carefully by our OB when pregnant.

But your ability to get and stay pregnant is not linked to the age of your uterus.

It's really linked to the age of your eggs and the resulting embryo quality.

Isn't that fascinating?

Yeah.

I mean, 60 is pretty extreme.

Every program, this is kind of interesting, every IVF center may have its own kind of internal guidelines.

And there's ethical things that have been written about this to help guide decision making.

But you do have to think about

having a healthy baby and also thinking about what is the goal here and some of the ethical guidelines written by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, right?

Those are the types of societies we look to for guidance on these things, because it's so not black and white.

And it's very hard to tell someone,