BEATING THE CLOCK
Modern technology is giving women the opportunity to choose their own life path, without the pressure of the proverbial “biological clock” . Oocyte Cryopreservation allows women to freeze their eggs and delay prospective pregnancy to when they feel they’
Manisha*, 32, an IT professional, married for three years now, was active on a private messaging app group. The group had her friends, all in their 30s, pursuing different career goals in different parts of the world, united by a single “cause”: they were all there to support each other while trying to get pregnant. Pregnancy, most women will tell you in private and in public, is traumatic; the very thought of it is enough to send jitters down a woman’s spine. Once a woman crosses 25, the biological clock metamorphosises into her life — as life-like a monster as Kafka’s cockroach. Yet, childbirth is a decision many are incapable of taking in their mid or late-20s and even early-30s. Since your 30s are in many ways your 20s now, more women