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Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

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Re: Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

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Post by Ma8ee »

Or get a husband that takes care of the kids. The woman will of course have carry the children in her womb, which will be some tough months. But after that the husband can do almost everything. If she feels that it is important to feed the baby breast milk the first months, excellent pumps can be bought.

This is a much better option than waiting until it almost is to late.

(I’m not talking out of my ass: I’m currently a stay at home dad so my wife can focus on her career. Soon our second kid is a year and will start kindergarten, and I’ll start working 75%).

Re: Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

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Post by jimbob45 »

notRobot wrote: post #12
spoonjim wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very high if they’re frozen when the woman is <35.

That's a terrible answer for a website like HN where accuracy is important.

The answer is that fertility only goes down. If you want to ever get pregnant, you should begin at least taking initial steps today rather than waiting.

Re: Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

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Post by poopoopeepee »

Miner49er wrote: post #15
austincheney wrote: post #7

The only logical answer here is youth. The younger you are the more fertile you are. This is true for both men and women, but more true for women. If you want children at some point in life then prioritize children first and early. I know, this puts your ambitious career on hold for a while and start ups require huge ambition. Still, start up opportunities will not be hyper critically different in the future than the…

This advice is likely economically bad though. Capital now is better than capital later. I would think money made early and saved by not having children and invested will end up being much more then what will be spent on a fertility clinic later.

Another alternative is to design your startup around a very low burn rate and change nothing else in your life. I mean, if it is going to take 5-10 years as the blogger claims, what's 8-12 years if you get to tick all the other boxes in life?

Re: Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

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Post by nzmsv »

Miner49er wrote: post #15
austincheney wrote: post #7

The only logical answer here is youth. The younger you are the more fertile you are. This is true for both men and women, but more true for women. If you want children at some point in life then prioritize children first and early. I know, this puts your ambitious career on hold for a while and start ups require huge ambition. Still, start up opportunities will not be hyper critically different in the future than the…

This advice is likely economically bad though. Capital now is better than capital later. I would think money made early and saved by not having children and invested will end up being much more then what will be spent on a fertility clinic later.

The chances of having a kid with a serious disorder go up dramatically for older mothers (and recent research shows this is true for fathers too). Even if we decide only to care about economics and not the kids health, health issues are expensive.

Re: Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

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Post by [deleted] »

mberning wrote: post #8

I just recently had my first at an age closer to 40 than 30. I think freezing your eggs and having kids later is not such a great idea. Sure, you can have the kid well outside your prime or even use a surrogate. But that is just the beginning. Your child is not going to get the experience of being raised by a more youthful and energetic version of yourself . I think there is a lot to be said for that. I wish I had st…

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Re: Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

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Post by kapp_in_life »

School-Cotton wrote: post #6
rantwasp wrote: post #3

I empathize with how hard it is for a female founder in particular and for a woman in general when it comes to mixing children with a career. That said the advice to freeze your eggs (ie work now, live later) rubs me the wrong way. I wish we could live in a society where people would not have to work themselves to death and were able to... you know... enjoy life

Our society doesn't force or even encourage people to be startup founders -- they choose it for themselves. There are plenty of examples of classes of people who have to work harder than they should in an ideal society, but I'm not sure what point you're making with this particular one.

I think the overarching point they were making was about the difficulty women have with balancing a career with having a child(which is further exacerbated for women founders due to the increased workloads founders face).

I do agree though that choosing to be a founder then complaining about a poor, usually self imposed, work life balance is a bit silly.

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