Understanding egg freezing

• Egg freezing is a method to freeze healthy eggs extracted from the ovaries, so that the woman can conceive later in life when she is ready. The process of Egg freezing is based on preserving their own eggs in healthy condition until ready to conceive later in life.

• We have offered these services in the context of both oncology and social egg freezing.

Social egg freezing

• With advancing female age, both the egg number and quality deteriorates. Women may want to delay child bearing due to demanding jobs or because they feel that is not the right time for them to have a baby. It can also appeal to women who have not found the right partner and their biological age is ticking away. Egg freezing helps these women preserve fertility.

 Oncology

• Egg freezing is offered as a means of fertility preservation in the female. It is offered to women who are about to undergo chemotherapy (following cancer) which can render the woman infertile and hence egg freezing offers them the chance of having their own genetic child later.

• Fertility in the female is at its peak in the twenties and once the female age is 30 years fertility starts declining and drastically declined once one reaches 35 years of age. Two out of three women presenting to us with fertility issues once they are more than 35 years of age have very few eggs. It is just not just the number but quality also declines dramatically with age.

• If one is considering to freeze eggs, the earlier would be better-late twenties or early thirties so that the chance of having a baby later with frozen eggs are better. As age increases, as both quality and quantity declines, this can be an issue if a woman presents for freezing after 35 years though it can still be considered.

• The process of egg freezing is similar to undergoing IVF in that hormone injections called FSH are given for about 9-10 days and once follicles are of the right size, the eggs are collected under short anaesthetic and frozen.

• We use the latest technique called vitrification for freezing which gives excellent results and they can be frozen for any number of years.

Many fertility centre are available in all over India but Mother to be provides the best fertility specialist in Hyderabad and identify all the issues related to fertility.