What is egg freezing?
Egg freezing is a process to freeze or preserve. Women egg for future use. Or it is also called as fertility preservation.
For whom egg freezing will be the best option to save their fertility?
A woman who wants to preserve their fertility because of education or their career.
Women having cancer.
Or some other medical reason. It may be cancer treatment.
If a woman suffering from a medical condition.
How many years can remain frozen?
Egg can be frozen for up to 10 years.
Long term storage does not harm or impact the quality of embryos.
What is the best age for freezing of egg?
We get healthy egg before age 30, fewer in 30-35, and less small yield after35 years of age.
What is the survival rate of frozen eggs?
The survival rate depends on many factors.
Age of women
The technique of egg freezing
How many egg needed to be frozen?
There is not a specific number that will guarantee a pregnancy.
At age of 34 or, younger freezing of 10 eggs will result.
For age of 35-38 about 15 eggs. Are frozen eggs will give the same result as fresh eggs.
According to studies and data –
Frozen eggs if thawed in a high-quality lab they are equal potential to give pregnancy like fresh eggs.
Is there any risk or abnormality seen in the children born from frozen egg?
Studies and data show no increased rate of abnormality when compare to the general population.
Egg freezing technology is safe and no higher rate of birth defect in bodies born from freezing technology.
Is it a painful process?
No, it is not a painful process. Egg are developed in ovary by giving some hormonal medication when they get developed, taken out from ovary by giving anaesthesia with the help of a needle (ovum pick up needle) and embryos developed in lab. On day 3 or day 2, we freeze embryos according to use their quantity, which patients can use in the future for transfer.