What You Need to Know Before You Freeze Your Eggs

This is how I am introduced at the entrance of an event that aims to normalize egg freezing, run by a startup collaborating with a private fertility clinic..

They imply that having a low ovarian reservewhich is assessed through the fertility tests they sell: the anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) test and antral follicle countmeans you should freeze your eggs to avoid disappointment further down the line..

Egg freezing can preserve eggs that are statistically likely to be of a higher quality at a younger age for a pregnancy at a later stagethough its physically more demanding to carry a pregnancy at a later age, and the risk of gestational diabetes, for instance, increases...

The presenters never use the word IVF or ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) even though a fertility treatment is the logical conclusion of freezing your eggs..

The procedure might become so safe, accessible, and effective that women in their twenties confidently freeze a small number of eggs to preserve their quality just in case.. Clinics vary in how good they are at fertilization..

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