So, You Want to Freeze Your Eggs (Part 2) with Cofertility CEO Lauren Makler
The WoMed
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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of the Cofertility interview with CEO and co-founder Lauren Makler, the three discuss the amazing work the company is doing to help women and families on their reproductive journey. First, Danielle shares that she’s feeling much more energized following her low iron diagnosis and that the dynamic duo will soon be taking the next step in their journey: starting hormones! The three discuss the stigma and assumptions surrounding egg freezing and the reasons that people should see it as an empowering option to eliminate the pressures of their biological timing. Cofertility aims to make egg freezing accessible to everyone, so Lauren dives into the options available through Freeze by Co's Keep and Split programs. Offering people the option to freeze for free by donating half of their eggs, she shares the process of enrolling in the Split program, how it works to store for free, the process of being matched, and what it looks like if people want siblings. For those who are not interested in donating their eggs or do not qualify, Lauren discusses the Keep Program and the various financial options available to make egg freezing more accessible. The hosts are thrilled to have Lauren back for Part 2!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:18.3 | Happy Friday, y'all. Welcome back to the RoOMED. Jack and I are here with you for Part 2 with |
| 0:25.3 | Lauren Mackler, co-founder and CEO of Co-Fertility. Oh my gosh. I could sit and talk to her all day, |
| 0:35.7 | truly, with starting, actually starting these, you know, updates on where Jack and I are in our |
| 0:43.6 | egg freezing journeys. |
| 0:45.8 | Last week I spoke into how I had to put my cycle on pause and how you were going to do |
| 0:51.5 | that with me because we have to do everything together, |
| 0:55.4 | thankfully. |
| 0:58.6 | But I thought we could just kind of touch base on that real quick and kind of see how we're |
| 1:03.7 | feeling this week. |
| 1:05.4 | Now that it's kind of settled in, we aren't doing our cycle now for at least another three weeks. |
| 1:16.1 | Like when is the earliest that you can retest your hemoglobin and see if all these things that |
| 1:22.6 | you're doing are helping? In a month. In a month. So, like, April 10th. |
| 1:33.6 | I can go in and should do like another CBC, hemoglobin stuff like that. |
| 1:38.4 | So. |
| 1:40.9 | Girlfriend, I'm so sorry. |
| 1:43.2 | It's going to happen. We're going to do it. We're going to go to New York. We're going to take an extra few days and, you know, see all the things that we didn't have time to do. But we're also going to go there with our boyfriends and go on nice double dates. Yeah. Do you feel any better? Like, do you feel like you have more energy? |
| 2:02.1 | Like, what's going on without that? |
| 2:03.8 | I feel like, I don't know if it's in my head, but I do feel like I have a little more energy. |
| 2:11.1 | But if I try and work out or, and like light workout or even like you know taking the stairs carrying something I'm |
| 2:20.9 | like a little out of breath y'all like it's it's weird I just don't feel that strong in my body |
| 2:29.6 | so and I've been kind of like really tired during the day yeah Yeah. Like mornings I'm okay, but then I kind of lose energy throughout. |
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