The aim of freezing your eggs is to preserve good quality eggs for possible use later in the future. This procedure is useful for women:
- Who are not ready to have their children because of their career
- On treatment for cancer with radiotherapy, chemotherapy or surgery involving removal of their ovaries
- It is a good alternative in areas where fundamental religious beliefs frown at the freezing of excess embryos.
Following ovulation induction, eggs retrieved are stored by freezing and can be thawed for fertilization in the future to achieve a pregnancy. It is best to freeze your eggs before you are 35 years of age to increase the number of good quality eggs. Egg quality declines after 35 years.
Two methods of freezing female eggs are:
- Slow or gradual freezing in a freezer
2.Rapid freezing or vitrification in which the eggs are rapidly frozen in nitrogen.
Both techniques are used in our clinic for egg freezing.
Vitrification
Eggs will be stored at NVH Fertility Clinic until you decide they be transferred to another facility or thawed for use in IVF. Do you think egg freezing and storage is right for you? If you have questions about it kindly discuss it with our IVF staff.
