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...information on how to choose a fertility clinic, visit time.com...
...sperm, and over the years, attempts to freeze and thaw them have almost always ended in failure. R.B.A.'s success, though it may not have been quite as dramatic as the birth of septuplets, within days had made headlines all over the world. Within weeks, the Atlanta clinic had fielded calls from fertility experts and infertile couples as far away as England and Germany...
...freezing is just one of the fertility breakthroughs that are moving through the pipeline from lab to clinic. Doctors are removing and cold-storing ovarian and testicular tissue for later reimplantation, coaxing test-tube embryos to grow stronger before they are put into the womb, even performing microscopic surgery to transfer chromosomes from old, worn-out eggs into young, robust ones. All these techniques have a single purpose: to beat the odds nature has stacked against a woman's ability to bear children...
Like most couples, the Bielickis and the Burskis didn't need the newest assisted-reproduction therapies. That's just as well: these procedures have not entered the mainstream of clinical practice. Some, including R.B.A.'s egg-freezing technique. may never do so. A second patient in the Atlanta clinic is pregnant thanks to a frozen egg; so, reportedly, are three women in Italy, and births have previously been reported in Australia, Germany and Italy. But the success rate is still very low--only two births in 23 tries in Atlanta, so far--and the technique is expensive. So R.B.A...
...ages 50 and older have borne children in the U.S., and so have many more in other countries. In fact, the 60-year-old barrier has been broken several times. Last spring, a 63-year-old California woman named Arceli Keh gave birth (she had allegedly lied to the clinic about her age); so, in 1994, did an Italian woman...