WEBVTT - I'm Latina and I'm Freezing My Eggs 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.640 I know that the clock is sticking, and I know 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:10.319 that when we've last checked my my account was very low. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.200 This is my body and no one should tell me 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:15.800 what I can and cannot do with it. And I 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.239 think God is okay with it. The dream of parents, 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.919 that is one of the biggest dreams that we all 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:31.400 all live for and work for. Hello everyone, and welcome 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.320 to another episode of Cheeks and Chill. I'm your host, 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.640 cheek Ease, and I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.000 I am. I had a really good weekend. Actually, I relaxed. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.319 I was in pjs, you know, just doing the thing, 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.680 being more of Jennet than cheek Eas, you know. But anyways, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.760 today's episode is something very personal to me. It's a 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.640 topic that isn't really talked about, especially in the Latin culture. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.480 I feel it's kind of, I guess, frowned upon in 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.160 a way. I always use this word, but it's true, 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.760 it's kind of taboo. So a couple of years ago, 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.160 I revealed my decision to freeze my eggs. It was 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.040 when I realized that I had assists in my left ovary. 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.080 I never knew it was there until one day I 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.120 woke up with a horrible pain. I felt like I 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.080 was going to die. It was like, I think, like 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.080 three in the morning, and I had my assistant and 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.040 I'm not one to go to the hospital. I I 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.400 can really really tolerate pain. So when I called her 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:27.880 and I said, I need you to take me to 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.480 the hospital, she knew it was like serious. I had her, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.720 you know, running red lights and something. I don't recommend 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.880 you guys, but I was in so much pain that 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.080 I just I don't It was horrible. When I got 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.160 to the hospital, they said, well, you have assists. I 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.640 guess it turned over on itself. My ovary because the 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.280 cists was pretty big, and they just said, you can 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:48.880 leave it there, you can remove it. I decided to 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.400 leave it there, and then I went to a specialist 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.160 and this is how I met Dr Kadeer, and he 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.520 found out that I had endometriosis, something I didn't know. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.680 This is something I've never shared with anybody. I want 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.520 to share with you, guys, but I don't know if 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.960 this is one of the reasons why I have endometriosis. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.480 I had a miscarriage when I was nineteen. I've never 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.720 talked about it ever, and I obviously was afraid. I 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.840 was scared. I never told my mom, I never told anybody. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.120 I didn't know what was really happening. I knew I 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:21.919 was pregnant. I just didn't know how to tell my mom. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.560 And then I don't know if it was a stress 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.560 I I just started bleeding and stuff started coming out 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.600 at chunks. It was really really crazy. Apparently I had 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.520 a miscarriage. I never went to the doctors to take 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.280 care of it, so they had to go in later 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.600 like a year later, actually not a out of your letter, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.440 like six months, eight months later, and I went and 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.360 got a pop smere and they're like, you know what, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.400 we need to clean up, Like I told them what 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.079 had happened, and they needed to go in there and 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.480 put me to sleep and basically clean up my uterus. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.320 And I've always thought, is it because of that situation 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.760 that's what happened? And then I thought they had removed 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.040 my sis apparently back and grew back and they had 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.440 to remove it again because I don't know. I don't 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.200 know what happened. I don't know if it was a 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:08.880 new sis, if it was the same sis, I don't 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.440 know it was in the same ovary, so that was 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.720 also keeping me from freezing my eggs, because if you 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.160 inject too many hormones in your body, well, I was 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.960 just going to be feeding that one cis and it 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.440 was just going to get bigger and bigger and not 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.600 necessarily my eggs. So that's one thing that had me 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.320 just you know, I was a little hesitant about it. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.360 Now I do wish I would have done it sooner. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.680 I think it's just something that especially as a woman 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.839 and everything that's in our food and in the air, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.480 it's just I don't know. I think of all these 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.720 things and I'm like, it has to affect our bodies. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.440 So I think that the sooner you do it, the 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.640 better because it's just kind of like a backup plan. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.880 I'm gonna try to get pregnant naturally with my current 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.800 partner because right now I'm not on birth control. Right now, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.520 I am just not trying to get pregnant, but not 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.320 not trying to get pregnant, so I don't know what 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.080 that means. I'm just like, if it happens, and if 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.280 it's meant to be, then that's what's going to happen. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.600 And I just want to have my eggs just in case. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.240 I can't have the baby, I can't get pregnant on 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.480 my own, or I don't know, maybe I want to 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.440 get a surrogate. I've thought about that before. I've also 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.080 thought about my siblings. I know this is weird, but 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.200 I've thought about like Johnny, you know, if he wants 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.760 to have a baby with his partner. I know it 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.200 sounds weird, but I'm like, hey, I'm his sister. You know. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.599 I've thought about so many different things. You guys, I 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.640 just feel like it's it's a good backup plan just 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.680 in case I'm not able to get pregnant and I 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.039 would do it on my own or with a partner. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.080 I think right now, I am not even thinking about 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:44.640 getting pregnant necessarily, like at this moment, but I just 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.280 know that time is ticking and I have to get 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.880 it done. And I don't want to feel like, damn, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.359 I should have done it, you know, would have, could have, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.719 should have? You know, I kind of want to be like, Okay, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.680 I have it. That pressure is kind of off, and 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.320 I can kind of just kill a little bit, travel 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.080 a little bit more and and do me. You know, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.480 I just want to do it sooner rather than later. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.200 I was talking about it on the reality show, and 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.479 I met a doctor through the reality shows. That's one 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.160 of the great things. Actually, there's a lot of really 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.360 good things about the reality show, and I want to 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.920 think that and be grateful for those moments, because even 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.720 though it was a lot of hard work and sometimes 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.600 it did bring a little bit of drama in our life, 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.560 I got to spend a lot of time with my family, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.479 with my friends, and I also got to meet really 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.479 cool people like the person that I'm going to speak 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.960 to today, which is actually my doctor, Dr Gooder. And 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.880 a lot of people ask me, did you already freeze 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.279 your eggs? Cheekys. No, I have not, and I know 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.080 he's very upset with me about it. He texted me 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.680 here and there He's like, when are we going to 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.720 do this? Cheeks? You know it is time Before we 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.400 get further into the conversation, I want to welcome Dr Gooder. Hello, 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.320 Dr Gooder? How are you? He's here with me? Hello? 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.720 Thank you so much for having me. Of course, I 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.800 wish you guys could see him. He has the best 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.680 eyebrows in the world at like your hair could. By 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:04.120 the way, you thank you very much so, Dr Deer. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.480 I know that is something that I need to do 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.600 as soon as possible. When do you recommend Dr Deer 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.440 to freeze your eggs? So, first of all, I want 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.719 to address something that you said. You're not the only 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.760 woman that feels like this. It's a big step for 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.560 people to take, and I usually like to tell people 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.960 just do it and be done with it, because I 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.240 guarantee you afterwards you're going to realize that this was 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.240 so much easier than you ever thought. It is a 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.200 quick ten to twelve day process of little injections that 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.719 we teach you how to administer in your belly, and 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.680 if you can't do it yourself, we are happy to 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.599 help you do them, and we can come into the 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.480 office every day and help you do them. We can 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.560 even send someone to your home and do them. But 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.520 there's a couple of different things involved. The sooner and 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.960 the younger you do this, the better. So everyone's peak 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.800 fertility is probably between the ages of like twenty and 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.960 twenty seven. That is your peak fertility as a female, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.479 and after that time it just begins to decline. Now, 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.520 there are other are things that can affect your fertility 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:07.400 as well. For example, endometriosis, PCOS and the number one 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.880 thing that affects you eggs is aging. And one of 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.000 the things that you also talked about. I think it's 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.920 very sensitive and should be addressed, is because in the 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.520 Latin culture, because so many people do have kids at 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.560 a younger age, this is something that maybe looked as 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:28.400 taboo or frowned upon or making you less of a woman, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:33.440 but it's not. There are many many Latin women patients 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.840 of mind, and to be honest, from all cultures and 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.360 backgrounds that are coming to my office that have become 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:43.160 very successful businesswomen, accomplished in many different areas of the 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.880 world and in the world of business, and who are 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.880 just not ready to have a child. And there is 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.120 no reason why you should be giving up the dream 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.200 of parenthood just so you can go forward with having 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.160 a kid at the wrong time in your life. And 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.960 that's what this allows you to do. It allows you 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.720 to preserve your fertility and your right to make your 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.240 decision about when it's right for you to have a child. See. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.120 And that's the thing. When I first started this process, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.040 I did hear it a lot, even like on media, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.960 Oh she can't have kids, she's in other words broken, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:16.720 you know, And it's not that it's just it's a 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:21.600 choice of mine because I wasn't necessarily ready to have children, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.080 and I said, okay, this is a way of taking 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.640 the pressure off. And I got things like it's going 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.200 against God's will. I feel that it is my choice. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.959 It's my body. I'm very, very pro choice in a 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.000 lot of things. So this is something that this is 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.520 my body and no one should tell me what I 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.320 can and cannot do with it. And I think God 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.800 is okay with it. Dr Gader exists for a reason. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.560 God gave us this technology. I think if it's against 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:51.000 someone's morals, religious thoughts, beliefs in this world, and they 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.960 shouldn't do it. But for many people who are out 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.560 there that they believe in science, and they believe in technology, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.880 and they believe in the field of medicine and how 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.199 amazing we've become and how advanced we are. My field 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.760 of medicine has only existed for thirty years. I mean, 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.040 that's it. And then it's only been in the last 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.440 I want to say, ten fifteen years that we've become 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.520 really good at it. And I want to say in 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.160 the egg freezing world, it's only been around for about 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.280 ten years. So We've only gotten really good at it, 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.600 i'd say in the last maybe a few years, so 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.360 we're very good at it now. There's been other reality 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.280 TV show stars who came and froze their eggs at 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.440 the age of forty four and came back and had 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.560 those kids at the age of forty six and delivered 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.800 at forty seven and did amazing And I'm sure most 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.319 people know who I'm talking about, But I think it's 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.000 a very personal decision. I do not think it's fair 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.680 for anyone to judge if it's God's choice or God 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.040 is allowing, or God looks down in your eyes. If 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.920 the person believes that it's against their religious beliefs, then 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.600 I don't promote that for them. But for most people, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.839 I think science is on their side, and the dream 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.520 of parenthood is one of the biggest dreams that we 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.960 all all live for and work for. And I don't 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.679 believe it's someone's position to kind of be negative about 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.880 it against someone else's. I agree. I agree. I'm all 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.800 about live and let live. Whatever you want to do, 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.800 I respect it. Whatever I want to do, you should 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.400 respect it, you know. And it's not even because of 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.760 what they've said or what my family may think, or 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.280 some of my family should. I say, I haven't done it. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.360 It's just has been one thing or another. But I 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.360 know that the clock is sticking, and I know that 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.800 when we've last checked my my account was very low. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.320 So I guess in a way, I'm a little afraid 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.320 of going and getting all the tests done again, and 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.800 then what if I they're even lower, which I'm sure 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.880 is going to happen, because, like you said, it's age 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.520 when is too late. There are a lot of clinics 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.600 at the age of like forty close their doors. Some 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.000 clinics close their doors at the age of forty two, 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.440 some clinics at the age of forty four. We don't 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.640 close our doors. Every single patient is their own human being, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.760 and we like to assess and have discussions. So I've 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.400 had discussions with patients saying that listen, you may make 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.200 very few eggs. But then again, I have had people 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.840 make very few eggs and be successful and do incredibly 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.679 well with the whole journey and the process. So would 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.120 I tell my little sister, oh, you're only going to 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.080 make one or two or three eggs, just don't do it. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.360 I would say absolutely the opposite. One egg on ice 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.200 is better than no eggs on ice. And I think 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:26.280 that keeping yourself in the game, keeping whatever your body 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.320 is able to help you produce, and keeping it there 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.920 for your future at least keeps a door open. Even 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.480 if it doesn't work, you will know that you did 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.800 every single thing you could, and we have planned b 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.680 there's always the use of other people's eggs and egg 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.400 donation and things like that. But you're a perfect, perfect 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:50.199 example of the busy young woman in her thirties who 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.560 doesn't have the time to do this, a perfect example 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.679 for someone who is a little scared of doing it 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.120 because no one walks in is excited about this. But 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.240 it's one of those things in life where we do 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.160 it and we need to move on. I tell everyone 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.400 the best piece of advice I can give you to 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.240 freeze your eggs is start it, do it, and be 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.560 done with it, because once you start, a month later, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.360 you're going to bed at night saying, wow, I'm so happy. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.800 Now my eggs are on the freezers at Dr Gooder's office. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.080 He's doing all the babysitting, he's doing all the work now, 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.360 and I can go to bed at night knowing that 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.040 I did what I needed to do. And if you 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.080 needed to do it more than once, then people have 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:31.959 done it more than once. I had one patient that 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.920 did it five times. She said to me, Dr Gadeer, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.079 I'm going to have my four kids on my timeline 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.040 and I'm going to do everything that I can to 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.160 promote that and to keep my doors open. And she 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:44.920 did it. She did it five times and she had 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.920 over fifty eggs by the time she was done. Wow, 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.199 Oh my goodness. Okay, well, I'm just gonna pray that 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.720 I have like at least five. I think I'm gonna 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.880 have more than that. I'm just I'm gonna be positive. Well, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.040 you mentioned right now it takes ten to twelve days. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.199 Can you explain the process. So yeah, let's go through 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.520 the process, because I think it's really important for a 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.840 young woman who's out there. First of all, I want 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:11.080 everyone to check their medical insurance, call HR at their 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.160 office and find out if they have coverage. The saddest 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:19.240 thing I'm noticing, okay, there are people that have coverage 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.520 and don't even know they have coverage for egg freezing 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.960 and for fertility treatment. That is the saddest thing ever 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.000 for me. So all of the big everyone who works 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:33.440 at Disneyland, at Disney, Netflix, Apple, Google, Snapchat, any of 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.680 the big tech companies. They all have the most amazing 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.360 coverage that there is now. There are a lot of 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:43.880 other companies, large companies, law firms, lots of these places. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.320 They have this amazing coverage that people just don't even 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.000 know what their coverage is. So I don't know about 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.800 your personal employer, but that's the first thing I would do. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.440 If you have the coverage, take advantage of it. Freeze 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.760 your eggs, take advantage of it. If you don't have 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:04.000 any coverage, don't be scared because we have financing options. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.400 So first of all, we put together one of the 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.559 best specials that exists in the world of fertility because 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.720 we're a large clinic and we have the opportunity if 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.600 we want to give back and help people. So we've 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.160 decided for two thousand and twenty two to be giving 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.720 back a lot. So we are going to be opening 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.920 the doors and giving the opportunity. Um if anyone looks 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.280 at my social media channel, which is the Doctor's Shaheen 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.040 Gooder channel on Instagram, the specials are popping up left 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.680 and right. Our clinic also s c R C IVF. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.400 The specials are popping up there as well. We have 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.840 webinars that people can attend, and at the end of 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.120 the webinar they're able to do their consultation for a 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.520 much lower price by doing so. But if with all 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.720 of that you still have trouble, we have options for 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.600 financing that help you get this too, as low as 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:59.160 like a hundred and sixty seventy dollars. What is the 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.320 cost the class can range. When we do our specials, 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.400 they're in the six thousand plus six thousands something range 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.880 um and when there's no specials there are in the 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.640 eight thousands something range. But with the financing options, we're 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.400 able to help people get it as low as in 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.480 the one and something dollars a month. Now, it varies, 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.640 it varies on your credit, it varies on what you're doing, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.120 it varies on how many cycles you sign up for, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.800 but it's there so financially, I think is the number 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.600 one reason people fear this process. Once we have set 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.880 up a consultation and we go over everything in someone's 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.520 health and we go over their menstrual cycle, what their 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.200 goal is. If someone tells me they want to have 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.520 four kids versus one kid, I think it's a little 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.640 different how many eggs they need to have frozen for 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.680 the future. If someone is twenty nine about to be 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.240 thirty and they're ready to go the second day turn thirty, 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.520 it's a little different than someone who's like thirty nine 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.280 about to be forty. So these are all things that 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.880 I need to take into consideration when making an overall 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.640 plan for someone. And I think it's really important that 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.160 we're on the same page. So after the initial consultation 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.360 and this these days, it's super easy. We do them 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.680 by phone. You don't have to leave your home, you 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.320 don't have to leave work, You could do them from 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.320 wherever you want. And I've noticed that people are a 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.840 lot more comfortable, and I've noticed that people are a 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.600 lot more open with me, and they are much more 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.680 just relaxed doing these consultations on the phone, rather than 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.040 coming to my office in l A, sitting in my 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.840 waiting room, coming and sitting here with me, which would 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.640 give some people a lot of anxiety. So with that 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.640 being said, we've made that as easy as possible. When 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.680 the time comes, and it always happens with your period, 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.160 So people call us on the first day of their period, 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.240 on day two, three, or four of their cycle. We 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.360 generally set them up to come in and do a 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.280 quick ultrasound of their ovaries. It's a vaginal ultrasound that 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.040 looks at the ovary and tells me how youthful, how young, 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.560 and how healthy those ovaries look, and then we put 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.200 them on a birth control pill to stop their natural 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:57.400 ovulation cycle. Now, if you are already on birth control 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.480 pill and have been on it for a while, we 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.320 usually recommend for people to go off their birth control 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.320 for a month or two before so their natural hormones 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.200 just come back to life and are doing really really well. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.840 So that's a really important thing for us to do 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.320 um and we kind of do that really quickly, and 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.560 once we have people back coming back to normal, we 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.680 are ready to start. So after about ten to fifteen 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.600 days of birth control, we teach you how to give 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:28.560 yourself these injections that last for about ten to twelve days. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:33.120 They're tiny, tiny little needs. Some people don't even feel them. 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.560 Like we get phone calls all the time, like I'm 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.879 so sorry to my nurses. You know, they say, I 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.600 don't know if I'm getting the injection, Like I don't 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.160 even feel it. But we see that their eggs are growing, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.480 and we see that their estrogen levels are going up, 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.840 so we know that they are doing well, and they're 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.960 doing they are growing, so they're very small. During those 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.760 ten to twelve days of injections, we usually have people 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.000 come in about three or four times for ultrasounds and 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.439 blood tests to make sure that everything is growing and 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.399 everything is coming along really well. And then towards the 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.440 end of the ten to twelve days, we usually say, 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.400 you know what, you're ready to have your eggs come out. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.040 We bring patients to our surgery center, which is right 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.159 here in our office. You've been there before. You're in 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:11.960 there for about an hour, hour and a half. The 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.359 actual procedure is under a light an aesthetic that my 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:19.120 anesthesiologist gives. You fall asleep, you wake up, and it's 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.879 all done. It takes about three to five minutes for 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.920 the eggs to come out. It's a special little needle 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.520 that goes at the tip of an ultrasound machine. The 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.240 eggs get what we call retrieved, and then those eggs 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.160 then go off to the ib F laboratory and all 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.280 of the eggs that are mature get frozen to be used. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.600 Whenever you're ready to use them in the future. So 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.560 quote unquote healthy, right, because there are some that are 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.919 come out that probably are not usable. Is that correct. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.000 So the only thing we're able to check is if 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:52.040 the egg is mature or immature. Now, if you come 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.480 in with a partner and say, this is my partner, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.040 we want to make embryos, that's when the egg and 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.640 the sperm are put together. When we put the egg 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.520 in this them together, then we watch the embryo grow 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.119 for a week. Whatever embryo makes it to the full 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.760 grown stage at that point, then we are able to 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.280 do a little biopsy, freeze the embryo, and I can 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.639 tell you a week later if the embryo is genetically 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:21.600 normal or genetically abnormal. That's completely different than the egg. 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.200 The egg I can only tell you is mature. Let's 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.600 say you come back with someone with great sperm a 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.719 few years later, there's a good chance you're gonna make 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.800 a really good embryo. Let's say you come back with 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.359 someone who has really poor sperm in the future. I 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.040 don't know, maybe you're not going to make as many 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.119