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Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.

Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.

Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.

The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.

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Young Eggs & Egg Freezing: Jana’s Story at the Infertility Center of St. Louis (Part 3)

Episode 3 of Jana’s eight-part egg-freezing series pivots from medical logistics to the emotional dividend of fertility preservation: freedom from the relentless “ticking clock.” Speaking from her apartment four months after retrieval at Dr. Sherman J. Silber’s Infertility Center of St. Louis, the 30-year-old professional says she now makes life decisions—dating, career moves, travel—without the background anxiety that her fertility window might slam shut.

Jana recounts how, before freezing her eggs, every social event seemed shadowed by timeline math: “If I meet someone this year, we’d need a year to date, a year to plan a wedding, then… will I still have good eggs?” Now, with 18 vitrified oocytes stored in the clinic’s FDA-approved cryovault, she feels she has “hit pause.” Dr. Silber’s team projected that these genetically younger eggs translate to a 70-plus percent cumulative live-birth chance via IVF—even if she doesn’t attempt pregnancy until her late thirties or early forties.

That probability reshapes her outlook. She’s comfortable exploring natural conception first, knowing a high-quality backup exists. She’s also less susceptible to settling for the wrong partner out of biological urgency. Jana calls this psychological shift her “invisible superpower”—subtle day-to-day, yet profound in moments of life planning.

The episode includes a short clip from Dr. Silber explaining why egg age—not uterus age—drives success rates. By banking oocytes at 30, Jana has essentially preserved her 30-year-old fertility for future use. The segment ends with her advice to peers: “If you can swing the cost or your employer offers benefits, do the consult. Even if you never need the eggs, the stress relief is priceless.” Viewers are teased with Episode 4, where Jana will visit the lab to see how her eggs are cataloged and safeguarded for long-term storage.