Professional sports and fertility

If you ask females working in professional sport (be they athletes, coaches, officials) what they want to know more about with regards to female health, fertility is always up there as a topic that interests them a lot.

Yet as has played out this week in the news - there is so little information out there, and even then it’s very hard to know who to trust.

It’s probably a topic that sport doesn’t want to embrace as the system is not designed in anyway to support a female wanting to freeze her eggs and most women are worried about talking about this as it seems like they are somehow less committed by even contemplating having a family at some point in their life.

What I struggle with is where do you go to get the good information - the clinics and the fertility brands have a lot to say, but they have something to sell you, so how much can you trust them?

This is why I was pleased to see this documentary by the BBC