Why Does It Get Harder To Have Kids?
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Published 2024-07-05
You might’ve learned women are born with all the eggs they’re ever going to have - roughly 1 MILLION. But around 10,000 die every month during childhood, so most of us reach puberty with roughly ~300,000 eggs. Then each month, we release one while another 1,000 die. So over time there is this big decline in total quantity of eggs and that can be a big issue.
But another issue is how many of those eggs have 23 chromosomes. This is called “egg quality." Most of the time, having any other number of chromosomes means the resulting embryo never implants or grows. But you only release one egg a month, and as you get older, the chances that egg doesn’t have 23 chromosomes goes up. So scientists found it’s possible to remove eggs, freeze them, and then unfreeze them to use later! Real life cryosleep!
But there are some big issues...
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All Comments (21)
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lol when sex Ed just taught me “this is how babies are born. Here’s some terms for you. Don’t have sex”
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joke on you, in my religious high school, we had no sex ed!
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Imagine being born from a frozen egg lol ,you must be the coolest kid in class 🥁
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"How do you like your eggs?" "Frozen, saving them for later." "What?"
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Eggcellent eggsplanation.
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Jokes on you, I'm latin and my sex ed is don't have sex or you'll die
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This doesn't apply to drake, he dates his girls when they still have 1 million eggs
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To be honest, I read the title of the video and was expecting something like charts showing how much the costs and prices increased over the decades.
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Human bodies are out here wasting eggs like they aren’t $8.99 a carton 🤧
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Not even kidding, but my sex ed class was "This is a condom, now put it on this banana" That was literally it.
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Having our first kid in January 2025! I’ve never been happier!! Wish us luck!
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There's also the issue with sperm too. Age, drug use, alcohol consumption, and "over indulgence" all negatively affect the quality of sperm. Fertility is not all on the woman
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Im high asf and thought those were cheese balls
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My Biology class is basically my sex ed class, and they teach in more details, like, really, really detailed
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Actually my sex ed did cover this. And I wasn't even in the girls class
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Thanks for speaking on this, particularly as adult woman still on the younger side of the fertility conversation. I was a "miracle" for my parents who were having trouble having kids. I've had trouble conceiving, and I'm now in my late thirties and taking some of the same meds you are. If we are successful, I'll be having conversations with my children about fertility screening once they're adult enough to understand the implications and consequences.
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Why am i grieving my loss eggs 💀 brb coming up with 300,000 egg names. First one: eggnatious
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Imagine having a sex ed class.
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Thank you so much for sharing that YOU did this and the intricacies around it! Fertility/viability talk is much needed
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My son was conceived through IVF. There will be a talk of the “birds and the bees” at some point but added complication is how he was conceived. Maybe I’ll just tell him he was made in a lab like a super hero.
