万花筒2008-02-15:卵子冷冻-老来得子

At 38, sales manager Nick Armstrong is among a growing number of women who are freezing their eggs in hope of getting pregnant late in life.

“Hey, Tamie. It’s Nick Armstrong, It is Friday morning. Sales manager Nick Armstrong is among millions of women who are delaying marriage and child-bearing for career and other reasons. At thirty-eight, she’s also one of a growing number trying an experimental technique freezing her own eggs in hopes of becoming pregnant later in life. “ I wanna have a baby. It’s something that I saw myself doing always if somebody had said to you” were you gonna be at this point in your life?” I would have imagined that I ve married with two or three kids. Physicians disagree about whether egg-freezing should be used by women wanting to extend their fertility. A leading reproductive medical group says there isn’t enough evidence that pregnancy¹ rates are high enough and there haven’t been enough babies born yet from frozen eggs to know whether they will have any long-term health problems. “ It’s that desire to really to really wanna be a mother and raise a family of my own. I come from such a tightknit family. We were all very very close and so I've had the greatest example and I always just assume that I would have the same kind of family that I came from. As more women follow the lead of those like Nick Armstrong, researchers will have increasing chances to document the results and to figure out whether egg-freezing really is a good path to help women have it all. I knew that this was not gonna be any kind of a guaranteed procedure. Ew, Something that my parents and I sat down and discussed and decided². you know, it was worth the gamble. I am Sue Shellenbarger with working family from The Wall Street Journal.

1 pregnancy   

n.怀孕，怀孕期

参考例句：

• Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
• Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。