Made Eggs Be the Future of Fertility?
The Free Press • • health
Key Points:
- A baby girl has the highest number of eggs, about 6 to 7 million, when she is around 10 inches long in the womb, roughly the size of a sweet potato.
- By birth, the egg count decreases to about 1 to 2 million, and by the average age of first childbirth (27.5 years), only around 200,000 eggs typically remain.
- Many people, especially men, often do not consider these fertility odds until faced with challenges in a fertility clinic.
- Travis Potter, a 40-year-old hedge-fund manager, experienced this firsthand in 2022 after months of IVF treatments and significant expenses trying to conceive a second child with his 37-year-old wife.
