[S2E9] Eggs
Sadie and her wife Melissa are visiting for dinner and share that they are pregnant and also that women lose 90% of their eggs by the time they hit 30. This gives Jess much anxiety while Cece is less concerned and they both take fertility tests. Meanwhile, Nick is committed to writing his novel Z is for Zombies and Schmidt learns he may need a little more in bed despite his self-proclaimed va-genius status.
[S2E9] Eggs
I'd like a show of hands: How many of you women out there finished last night's episode of New Girl absolutely terrified about the state of your ovaries? I've learned a lot of things from the two seasons of the hit FOX sitcom. I've learned that divorced parents will probably stay divorced, I've learned that beautiful blue eyes can make a career, and I've learned a significant amount about hair chutney. Last night's episode taught me that by the time I'm 30, 90% of my eggs will be gone. Like, gone gone. I've never really thought about my eggs before, even writing the phrase "my eggs" makes me feel a little ill, but after 22 minutes of televised fertilization panic I'm definitely thinking about my eggs now.
The 90% statistic comes from studies published in 2010 by both Edinburgh University and the University of St. Andrews. The studies indicate that women are born with roughly 300,000 eggs, but by the time a woman is 30 only 12% of those eggs remain. Now, I haven't done an extensive amount of research on the subject, but since everything ever shown on television is totally true, I'm going with 90% of eggs = gone.
In New Girl world this information prompted the characters Jess and Cece to go get their eggs counted. In the real world, I think this information will spark hundreds of hushed and mildly panicked conversations between twenty-something women over cocktails. Clustered conversations of egg countdowns.
Obviously, things are different now. We have electricity, 2.5 kids is the norm, and a woman having children well into her thirties, or even at 40, is a total reality (Brooke Shields you are an inspiration.) We can freeze eggs, procreate in petri dishes, and use surrogates, sperm donors, and whatever other combination you can imagine. But bottom line is, having kids is still a numbers game, and quite frankly, that's terrifying.
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