Planning to freezing eggs at 40? Well, that's a bold, beautiful, and empowering decision right there. Your decision to keep your fertility is evidence of your knowledge and self-love. Like a great wine, you are ageing gracefully.
What is egg freezing? Egg freezing, is a technique to conserve reproductive possibility in women. It involves the extraction, freezing, and storage of a woman’s eggs (oocytes), which can be thawed, fertilized with sperm in a lab, and implanted in the uterus when the woman is ready to have a child. How does the egg-freezing process work? When you freeze your eggs from your ovaries and freeze them until you're ready to attempt to conceive, the practice is known as egg freezing or mature oocyte cryopreservation. You initially go through around 10 days of hormone injections before getting your eggs back. In vitro fertilization (IVF) preparation is comparable to this stage of the procedure. Reasons to Consider Freezing Your Eggs There can be plenty of reasons why you might consider freezing your eggs. Here are some of the reasons:
Risks Involved While the egg-freezing procedure is relatively safe, there are a few risks involved:
Well, egg freezing is yet another hard journey to walk on—too much to do, so much to take into consideration and a solid, life-changing decision to make. Just know that if you take this on, you are no less than a HERO, and you are not at all alone in this. Need advice, need support, or need someone to talk to? Get in touch with the experts on Sisterpedia. Feel free to reach out anytime.
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