Is Freezing Right For You? Due to aging effects on egg number and egg quality, the best time to freeze your eggs is when you are in your mid-30s or younger. If you are considering egg freezing, for medical reasons or otherwise, you should consult with a fertility specialist. If you’ve been recently diagnosed with cancer, fertility preservation treatments can usually be started within a few days, to avoid significant delay in your cancer treatment.
All women will have a natural decline in ovarian function and egg supply over time. This process begins at birth and completes at menopause. No medical therapy can halt natural ovarian aging. Oocyte cryopreservation (“egg freezing”) is a medical procedure through which a woman’s eggs can be harvested and frozen and then thawed, fertilized and transferred to the uterus as embryos at a later date.
How It Works ..."The technique for egg freezing is the same as that used for in-vitro fertilization. A woman self-administers hormone injections for about 10-12 days to stimulate multiple eggs to grow in the ovaries. Once the eggs are developed, a needle is inserted into the ovary and the eggs are removed. The length of an egg freezing treatment cycle is approximately 4-6 weeks, and eggs can remain frozen long-term. Laboratory methods for egg freezing have improved considerably in the last 10 years and pregnancy rates with frozen eggs may be comparable to those with fresh eggs.
Women who undergo fertility preservation and have a current male partner or sperm donor can fertilize eggs right away and then freeze embryos for later use. If embryos are healthy at the time they are frozen, the chance of pregnancy is very good. Pregnancy rates are not affected by the woman’s age when she returns to use her frozen eggs or embryos."...
I tried to convince my cousin to do this when she was in her late 20s cause she was all in her career mode and didn't want kids.... She waited until she got into her 40's and started thinking about it... Of course I told her sh better get to twerking... That ain't hot.... Trying to freeze dem ole eggs and don't know when she wanna bake em.... Seriously I know it's the thing with waiting an all... But after your mid 30s... I had my last child at 35... And I tell you I went thru the whole thing.. genetic testing.. counseling... Amniotic.. I wouldn't never want a woman to experience that trauma...
Wednesday, October 8th 2014 at 3:10PM
Cynthia Merrill Artis
FYI: Did you know?
Unlike men, who produce new sperm daily throughout most of their lifetime, women are born with all their eggs in one — okay, two baskets (ovaries). To be more precise, a woman is born with about one to two million immature eggs, or follicles, in her ovaries.
Throughout her life, the vast majority of follicles will die through a process known as atresia. Atresia begins at birth and continues throughout the course of the woman's reproductive life. When a woman reaches puberty and starts to menstruate, only about 400,000 follicles remain. With each menstrual cycle, a thousand follicles are lost and only one lucky little follicle will actually mature into an ovum (egg), which is released into the fallopian tube, kicking off ovulation. That means that of the one to two million follicles, only about 400 will ever mature.
Relatively little or no follicles remain at menopause, which usually begins when a woman is between 48-55 years of age. The remaining follicles are unlikely to mature and become viable eggs because of the hormonal changes that come along with menopause.
I hear you on that notion! After a certain age, its a definite risk of having a baby (if one can at all) with all those syndromes in particular Down Syndrome due to missing and extra (chromosomes) genetic material(s).
It's just easier to have babies when we're younger and healthier.
Many of the pregnancies at midlife end in miscarriage ... natures way of expelling defective reproductive materials or premature birth. There is just too, much going on at midlife in a woman's body to be having babies (hot flashes, irregular periods, moodiness, cold flashes, forgetfulness, weight gain, etcetera,... )
Well the way I pms... I gotta have more than that... It's insane... My grandmother was still having kids in her late 40's... Grandchildren older than their aunts and uncles... Ain't that nothing... And her mother popping them out a few 9 months apart... I'm serious I was like.... Team too dayum much... I ain't got s no time for that.....
