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I think the biggest question is if anyone was able to deliver children from frozen eggs (not frozen embryos)…If anyone had an experience, please share!
This.
For me it is an absolute yes.. It gives the greatest peace of mind knowing that I have options.
I did a round two years ago (paid completely out of pocket) and like PM1, the piece of mind and the sense of empowerment was well worth it.
I am now doing second round as I’m still single, have new job/health insurance that will cover a ton of the costs and would like to have a larger bank of eggs.
My philosophy when pursuing egg freezing was that I didn’t want to look back and think “darn, I wish I would have done that.”
I found the process to be relatively straight forward. I was very ready to be done at the end (felt like I was carrying around 2 bowling balls in my pelvis) but it wasn’t so bad that I’m not willing to do it again.
My recovery from the retrieval was minimal (felt fine the next day but followed all precautions) but did have a really heavy period (which I’ll plan for differently this time).
I’m happy to answer any questions you might have.
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Yes yes yes! Infertility, pregnancy losses, and subsequent depression caused FAR more havoc on my body than the egg retrieval. You’ll get more eggs when you’re younger. I want to shout it from the rooftops that every woman should freeze her eggs - I wish I had even done it two years ago when my AMH was double what it is now. I just spent $15k on a retrieval that yielded 4 eggs and zero embryos. Do it now.
I was thinking the same recently. What if it became common practice to have your eggs frozen at like 20?! That’d change a lot of women’s lives! (I’m 33 and doing it now, wish I’d done it sooner)
My company pays for this and I’m considering it, but sometimes I wonder if egg freezing is a way for them to make us prioritize working in our youth over our personal lives and future families. Lull us into a false sense of confidence…
It definitely is! They’re not doing it out of goodness of their heart! It’s much cheaper to pay for it egg freezing than to pay for maternity leave!
100% yes…time goes so fast and the quality of your eggs diminish as you go towards 35…I started fertility at 36 and even though I had 12 eggs only 1-2 were healthy enough to move forward.
I wish I had done it when j was younger.
Old enough to have done multiple rounds of ivf to get pregnant
Yes!
100% yes. I did 3 rounds this year at 32 and super happy I did. Totally back to normal physically, no issues
What protocols did you have ? How did you feel ?
These are all super helpful! Were there any restrictions in terms of what you could or couldn’t do? And if you don’t mind sharing, how many eggs tend to come out of a round?
C1-they only freeze the mature eggs so only 9 of the 15 were mature and worth freezing. The non mature eggs couldn’t be fertilized.
They don’t do any testing on the eggs but I did do genetic testing and found out I was a carrier for a few genetic diseases so if I go to use the eggs with a partner I’ll have him get genetic testing too.
the frozen egg to live baby success rate is under ten percent for a woman under 30. the statistics isn’t worth the pain and money to me, the illusion of “options” may be what they’re selling so i’d do my diligence to research.
^ the article points to a lot of factors that make it difficult to calculate accurate numbers that can be reliably applied to a broader group. There are so many variables in play- a woman’s age, her health/fertility profile, whether eggs or embryos are frozen, how long they are frozen for, how many frozen eggs are actually used…Potential success rates are hard to use for decision-making in situations like this.
For me it was. I did 2 rounds of embryo freezing at age 36 and got good results. I was fortunate to have it fully covered by insurance. Physically it was hard but end-to-end, each cycle was done in one month. The truly hard parts for me were the 2 weeks of recovery after each egg retrieval.