Women may choose to freeze their eggs to preserve their fertility and increase their chances of having children in the future, especially if they have a medical condition that may affect their fertility or are undergoing treatments such as chemotherapy.
Women may choose to freeze their eggs for personal reasons, such as delaying childbearing until they are financially or emotionally ready.
Not everybody is ready to have a baby at the same time in life and some may elect to have a child in their late 30s or 40s.
Timing is everything. Women who want to focus on their career, education or other life goals may choose to freeze their eggs to postpone motherhood.
There may also be circumstances beyond your control that mean having a baby in your current stage of life needs to be put on hold.
Unsure if you want to even have children? Many women are electing to freeze their eggs to keep their options open. The decision to become a parent is a personal one and for those who remain unsure egg freezing can be an important step in allowing them the time to make this decision.
A woman will undertake daily injections to grow a group of follicles that will hopefully contain eggs. She will take another injection to prevent premature ovulation as the follicles mature and grow in size.
During this time, blood levels and ultrasounds are undertaken to track the response to the medication. To collect mature eggs, the woman will undergo a brief outpatient procedure to collect the eggs with transvaginal ultrasound and a small needle is inserted into each follicle through the vagina. Once the follicular fluid is drained from each follicle, it is examined by a trained embryologist who will look for the eggs to freeze.
This is a difficult question to answer and will largely stem around each individual woman’s age, personal circumstances, and reproductive goals. As women naturally age, the number and quality of eggs will progressively decline.
There are no guarantees of fertility from egg freezing, however, it is a valid and good option for many women to provide some additional reassurance depending on their personal circumstances.
Studies have clearly demonstrated that as women naturally age their egg number and egg quality progressively decline.
The time to freeze your eggs is an individual decision.
It is strongly recommended that you seek advice from a fertility specialist to get a personalised consultation and advice specific to your own situation if you are considering this as an option.
Many patients will come to a consultation without any investigations ordered. This is completely fine – we can order any and all necessary tests needed at the time of your initial consultation. However, if you would like to arrange your tests ahead of time, there is a standard panel of tests we order for every patient considering elective egg freezing.
Your general practitioner or referring clinician can often arrange these investigations ahead of time and we can discuss them at your initial consultation.
Dr Danielle Robson, Fertility Specialist, consults at three locations across Sydney: the CBD, Chatswood, and Manly. A referral from a General Practitioner is required for all initial appointments.
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Danielle is a fertility specialist and gynaecologist with an interest in fertility preservation, premature ovarian insufficiency, and menopause management. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a sub-specialist in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
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