Why Freeze Your Eggs

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a mom? Images from our own childhood often serve as the basis of imagining ourselves as parents. Our senses come alive as we re-live the feelings of warmth, love and security in the arms of our parents. During role playing we imitated our own parents and rag dolls were our make believe babies. As a result of these memories, thoughts of parenthood are engrained in our collective memory at a conscious or subconscious level.

Welcome to the New Reality

Are you at a stage in your life where you can accomplish your goal of being a Mother? If you have ever thought of motherhood then you should also think about egg freezing to preserve your fertility.

Unlike past generations, women are waiting longer to start their families because they’re climbing the career ladder, completing higher education or haven’t found their life partner.

Egg freezing can be described as “baby insurance”. Freezing your eggs will keep them youthful and robust until you’re ready to become pregnant on your own terms. Egg freezing allows you to “bridge the gap” of your status and situation in life with your healthy eggs. Additionally, unanticipated medical problems such as cancer at a young age or a depleted ovarian function can also endanger a woman’s fertility and reproduction potential.
In human physiology, women are born with a limited reserve of eggs and this cannot be altered. Around one hundred eggs are lost each month due to normal attrition. Apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death, affects all human cells including egg cells. Unfortunately the lost eggs are never replenished by new replacement, resulting in diminished ovarian reserve.
Due to spontaneous cell mutations, fewer chromosomally normal eggs are released by the ovaries during the late thirties and forties. The net result is an increase in abnormal embryo formation, leading in turn to lower pregnancy rates and a rise in infertility and miscarriage.

In today’s world, women are healthier and live longer thanks to increased awareness of nutrition, exercise and better lifestyle habits. However, most of these well -intended efforts have little effect on the health of their eggs.

The trend of delaying pregnancy toward the later years has shed new light on maternal age as a cause of infertility. In fact, the number of women having babies between the ages of 35 and 39 has jumped 150 percent since the 1970s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national Vital Statistics Report.

Fortunately, egg freezing (human oocyte cryopreservation) offers women the possibility to preserve their fertility potential by harvesting robust eggs during the more favorable years and thawing them when a woman is ready for pregnancy in her personal and professional life.