Fertility Preservation–Why Should You Consider Fertility Preservation? Get “Eggspert Answers” for some Common FAQs!
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Pursuing fertility preservation may offer a benefit to
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Steps that lead from cryopreserved egg to baby
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FAQs
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How many eggs should you freeze?
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Can we predict the chances of conception based on the number of frozen eggs?
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How is egg and embryo cryopreservation accomplished?
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How to choose a cryopreservation center?
Women start to experience an age-associated fertility decline in their mid-20s and this decline accurately after the age of 35. The fact is that the biological clock exists which is the root for anxiety and much concern for women desiring to delay childbearing.
Young women who are diagnosed with cancer may want to pursue fertility preservation prior to starting their cancer treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Gratefully, with the advances in ART techniques, using egg freezing and embryo cryopreservation now allows women to pursue fertility preservation and to harness much of the current
we advance in assisted reproduction technologies through the use of egg or embryo cryopreservation no women can preserve their current fertility and harness much of it for future use.
Pursuing fertility preservation may offer a benefit to:
Women desiring to preserve their fertility potential
It is extremely common owing to career choices and other factors for women to delay their childbearing later in life. Unfortunately for most women, this desired delay places them at a downside for achieving pregnancy especially in their mid or late 30s or early 40s. Accordingly, egg or oocyte cryopreservation represents an insurance policy by which younger women (ideally under 35), might have a fallback position that they would be unsuccessful in achieving natural pregnancy later.
While no ART technology, including oocyte cryopreservation, can guarantee women’s future fertility. Oocyte cryopreservation can greatly increase your chances of achieving a future pregnancy.
Younger Women with Cancer
Many oncologic treatments like chemotherapy or radiation have been clearly associated with a profound decrease in fertility. Oocyte or embryo cryopreservation offers women with cancer a fair chance of preserving their fertility potential before being exposed to various oncology therapies. Cryopreserved eggs or embryos can be used once a cancer-free stage is achieved if there is no residual ovarian function after therapies.
Couples with personal concerns
Some couples who are undergoing IVF treatment are concerned about freezing additional embryos that may or may not be used in the future. As an alternative, in the course of an IVF cycle, now it is possible to only fertilize several eggs, which could become embryos while cryopreserving them. this approach allows couples to sequentially & fertilize eggs to generate the number of quality embryos necessary to achieve their reproductive goals.
Steps that lead from cryopreserved egg to baby
First, the oocytes will need to be thawed-only 85-95% are expected to survive the unfreezing process. Those eggs are then injected with sperm to foster fertilization, where about 75% of oocytes are expected to fertilize and result in early embryos.
The early embryos are those embryos that are typically grown in the IVF lab for several days, while the fittest progresses to a late-stage embryo/blastocyst. Ultimately, those embryos are transferred back to the women’s uterus hopefully to make a pregnancy.
FAQs
How many eggs should I freeze?
How many eggs do you need to freeze today to ensure success in the future? Unfortunately, there is no such way to know which of the oocytes that are collected would be the golden egg that will result in a pregnancy in the future. What we know is that every oocyte is expected to be a good one and the more oocytes embryologists have to work with, the better the chances are that you can able to make at least one healthy baby.
Can we predict the chances of conception based on the number of frozen eggs?
According to the researchers, the probability of at least pregnancy for a woman who froze 20 mature eggs at 34 age is 90%. If she had frozen more than 20 eggs, then the probability would have increased to 97%.
In the older women, if they freeze more eggs then we could anticipate that would need to provide a good probability of success. Compared to the 34 aged women with 20 mature frozen eggs, a 37-aged woman has a predicted probability of 75% for successful conception while for a 40-year old woman the probability reduces to 51%.
Can we predict the chances of conception based on the number of frozen eggs?
Egg and embryo freezing may only be performed as a part of an IVF cycle. An IVF cycle is performed by giving fertility medicines to a woman with the desired result of stimulating several eggs within the ovaries. then these eggs are retrieved through a minor surgical procedure. At this point, the eggs are cryopreserved and alternatively, the eggs are fertilized with the sperm, forming embryos, which can be cryopreserved.
The whole process can be completed within 2 weeks after your last menstrual cycle. At the time of desired pregnancy, the frozen eggs are thawed and fertilized to form embryos and then transferred into the intended mother’s uterus.
How to choose a cryopreservation center?
There are various factors to consider while choosing an egg/embryo freezing center, including:
- Skills of the embryologists
- Staff expertise
- Quality of the laboratory
- Where & How the eggs or embryos are stored
- Success rates of the center’s fertility services
Why do the cryopreservation lab you choose matter?
The experience of embryology scientists, optimal air quality, ventilation, adherence to standard operating procedures, continuous measurement of quality control indicators and quality assurance, and meticulous data collection & analysis are all necessary to create an efficient IVF laboratory and also result in successful outcomes.
MotherToBe fertility center in Hyderabad helps drive you to make an educated decision that will optimize your fertility journey and also help you meet your future motherhood goals.
Dr. Vyjayanthi is double board-certified in reproductive endocrinology, infertility. She has been enjoying helping build families for the past 20 years with her clinical expertise in embryology and reproductive medicine.
She is one of the top fertility doctors in Hyderabad, India who helps women freeze their eggs and embryos at MotherToBe’s fully-equipped world-class IVF center in Hyderabad.
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