Egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) allows women to preserve their fertility by storing eggs for future use. Mother Hospitals & IVF Center, Boduppal offers this technology for medical, social or personal reasons.
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A woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have. Egg quality and quantity decline with age — rapidly after 35. Egg freezing allows you to store eggs at their current quality for use in the future, when you are ready.
Women not ready for pregnancy now but wanting to preserve options, cancer patients before chemotherapy/radiation, women with a family history of early menopause, and those with rapidly declining AMH.
The ideal age is 25–35. Egg quality and quantity are best in this window. After 37, yield per cycle drops significantly. However, it is still worth exploring even after 35.
Frozen eggs can be stored for many years. Studies show good survival and pregnancy rates with eggs frozen for 5–10 years. Long-term storage is available at Mother Hospitals.
To have a reasonable chance of one live birth, most specialists recommend freezing 10–15 mature eggs (for women under 35). Younger women may achieve this in one cycle; older women may need more cycles.
It is similar to the IVF stimulation phase: 10–12 days of hormonal stimulation, monitoring scans, egg pick-up under sedation, and immediate vitrification (fast-freezing) of mature eggs.
Egg freezing is a well-established, safe procedure. The hormonal stimulation is the same as used in standard IVF. Side effects are generally mild.
Your frozen eggs are thawed, fertilised with sperm via ICSI, the resulting embryos are cultured, and the best embryo is transferred to your uterus in a frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycle.