More people than ever are putting their hopes for parenthood on ice.

Literally, they're freezing their eggs, removing some of them from their ovaries and storing them for the future.

Often they're doing this well before they intend to start a family.

It's a costly procedure that had primarily been used by people undergoing medical treatments like chemotherapy that could affect

their fertility.

But now it's becoming more common among healthy women.

We ask people taking this step to explain why.

I'm Yolanda.

I'm a professor in Illinois, and I froze my eggs at 36.

My name's Caitlin. I'm 28 and I'm currently planning on

doing egg freezing. I knew I wasn't ready to have kids at that moment, but I wanted to preserve

some chance of having a biological child in the future. I want to just be able to live my life

and not feel like I'm on somebody else's clock,

or I guess technically my own clock, right?

So my life since I've frozen my eggs, I've gotten a promotion.

I've traveled to Paris, Antigua.

I'm going to Mexico soon.

I got my maternity leave in my contract. It just freed some things for me. Especially in your 20s for me anyways, like I'm still exploring and figuring out who I am as a person, right? I really don't know. And I don't want to saddle myself with such a big decision like having kids

when I don't even know who I am, what I'm doing with my life. I think that I can bring so much

more to being a parent because I've taken that time to discover who I am. And I feel like I'm a much

more mature patient person than I was

earlier in life. Society puts a lot of pressure on women to especially find a partner, to have

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