万花筒2008-02-15:卵子冷冻-老来得子（在线收听）

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 pregnancy 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 decided. you know, it was worth the gamble. I am Sue Shellenbarger with working family from The Wall Street Journal.