Move over pamper parties and MaryKay home gatherings, a new type of party is taking over. Career women hosting egg freezing parties are steadily rising as the newest trend in metropolitan New York.
Single, career-oriented women in their mid-30s, who have never been married, are taking the scientific approach to motherhood. Forget leaving motherhood to fate, career women are opting to take fertility in their own hands by freezing their eggs at ticketed gatherings.
During the egg-a-thon, the attendees get a crash course in freezing their eggs, such as how the ovaries must be stimulated with fertility drugs for 12 days before the eggs are harvested while the patient is sedated.
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The price to preserve eggs is often cheaper at an egg freezing party than at a clinic. The average cost is between $6,500 and $7,500, compared to between $13,000 and $15,000 at clinics.
It seems as if career-focused women aren’t wallowing in despair when it comes to becoming a mother, but instead are taking their destiny into their own hands, literally. The ticking of their biological clocks no longer affects them negatively, as egg freezing parties provide a comfortable, non-judgmental atmosphere to postpone their motherhood phase until … whenever.