The Truth About Freezing My Eggs: What I Wish I Knew

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Are you considering freezing your eggs? Zack and I are diving into our experience freezing embryos with no details left out, from our decision-making process to preparation for the procedure through to post-procedure effects. We’ll get into the most difficult aspects of the process, the unexpected emotions that came up, and the actual retrieval procedure itself, and the one thing that everybody wants to know: just how much it cost. 1:17 Why Freeze Embryos? 12:17 The Hormone Injections 28:04 Egg Retrievals 34:20 Post-Procedure Effects 37:57 The Cost Of Freezing Embryos If you liked this conversation, you might like Liz’s interview with Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh AKA The Egg Whisperer. For more from Liz’s fertility Dr. Aimee, you can follow her on Instagram @eggwhisperer or online at http://www.eggwhisperer.com/. You can listen to The Egg Whisperer Show on your podcast platform of choice or on YouTube. Listen to last week’s episode: Kids Or No Kids? Sharing My Choice And ALL The Reasons Behind It. Listen to Liz’s episode with Heather McMahan: Heather McMahan Unfiltered: Sex, Money, Beauty Standards, and More. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. This episode is sponsored by: AG1: visit drinkag1.com/lizmoody and get your FREE year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs today. Puori: go to puori.com/LIZMOODY and use promo code LIZMOODY for 20% sitewide. Goodles: available nationwide at major grocery stores or visit www.goodles.com. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast.
0:03.7	If you have ever wondered what it's like to freeze eggs or embryos, I am going to share my
0:08.5	entire personal story today, including how we decided that this was the solution for us,
0:13.7	what the entire process was like, and the really surprising symptom that caught me
0:19.3	very off guard. Today, I am joined by my husband, Zach, and we are
0:23.8	going to get into all of the details. We will be sharing our exact numbers at the end of the
0:29.2	episode just to be sensitive to anyone who might not want to hear them. So you can listen to the
0:34.7	entire episode and then we will be very clear when we are about to get
0:38.2	into the amount of eggs, the amount of embryos, all of that kind of stuff. And if you want to hear
0:42.9	why we decided that we wanted to have a kid after years, after so many years of debating,
0:49.6	and everything that we considered, that is all in last week's episode, which I can link in the show notes.
0:55.2	And obviously, if anything around the topic of fertility is not what you want to hear right now,
1:00.8	I support that completely. I am sending you so much love, and I will see you next week.
1:06.7	So I think the best place to start is why. Why did we choose to freeze embryos instead of trying to have a baby as soon as we reach the decision?
1:16.6	Yeah, because I think both were options.
1:18.6	But at the end of the day, I think the thing it really came down to was time.
1:23.6	Time to develop things a little bit more like our careers.
1:30.6	Time to check through various bucket list items, especially since we've kind of added more things to our bucket list recently.
1:36.3	And I think more than anything, time to kind of sit in the space that we are in right now, because our life has changed a lot in the last few
1:47.6	years and we really like kind of where present has gotten us. And it just didn't necessarily
1:53.1	feel like quite the right time to gear shift to a whole another phase of life. Yeah, I totally
1:58.6	agree. It is interesting because once you have a kid, you're a parent
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