Sue Bird says she was one of many working women intimidated by the process of freezing their eggs, nearly paralyzed by the stigma so long associated with the decision.“I always put it off and never got around to it,” Bird said in a phone interview. “It got to the point where even though I’m at the end of my career, I need to start thinking about planning and being in a relationship changes how you look at things like this.
The WNBA’s all-time assist leader and her Storm teammate Breanna Stewart became more comfortable with the decision after attending an informational meeting together last year at Seattle Reproductive Medicine, a fertility clinic. Stewart, 26, froze her eggs during the summer of 2019; Bird froze hers a few months later.
“It wasn’t too long ago that it seemed experimental to freeze someone’s eggs,” said Dr. Nichole M. Barker, who works at Seattle Reproductive Medicine. “In 2012, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine lifted that off. That gave us the ability to do it clinically. That’s why you see the numbers going up.”
Bird agrees the subject has been taboo to talk about for too long because of misperceptions. She believes the time has come for that to change, passionately chatting about her own decision. “This isn’t weird, this isn’t something that has to be whispered about. This should be normal conversation for all women who have careers, are career oriented or who have goals that way, ” Bird said. “Pregnancy can put a huge pause button on things. Freezing eggs is the logical choice of having the family later. The stress of your ovaries being a ticking time clock in there. This alleviates all that stress.
What a joke of a story. Who cares?!?!
Slow sports night to be posting a story like this.
Baby Yoda would like this
Awesome!
How frickin stupid....taboo?
Why would they wanna sue larry bird?
Eat all those eggs you will be called for 2 in the key not 3
You're REALLY digging through the empty barrels to come up with this story. Is this what sports activism....errrr....'journalism' has come to in 2020? Yet you media types can't figure out why your stories are falling on deaf ears..........
Where is it taboo?
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