LISTEN | Why egg freezing is more than 'fertility insurance' : Ideas 53:59 Egg Freezing in an Age of Uncertainty

Toronto lawyer Salima Fakirani was 31 when she decided to freeze her eggs. She had been considering it for a couple of years, and had even gone for a consult at a fertility clinic. But when her employer introduced egg-freezing benefits, she decided to go for it.

She did two rounds of egg freezing and got a "good number" of her eggs into storage.

"I felt like I had bought myself a little bit of time," she said. "I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders." She used to joke with her mom that her grandbabies were tucked in a freezer somewhere, so she didn't have to worry anymore.

Fakirani had first heard about egg freezing from female colleagues at a big To

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