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What is an ideal age for Egg Freezing

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Dr. Ramya Mishra Shukla is a leading expert at Apollo Fertility. She specializes in IVF/ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection), IUI (Intrauterine Insemination), Blastocyst Transfer, Recurrent Implantation Failure, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, Hysteroscopy & Laparoscopy. Dr. Ramya has successfully treated more than 7000 happy couples.

Nowadays, most modern couples opt to put off having children until later in life because of their busy and demanding lifestyles. And when they're finally ready to start the journey towards parenting, age becomes a barrier that affects their fertility. According to World Health Organization estimates, between 3.9 and 16.8% of Indians experience primary infertility. Thus, for modern-day parents to conceive, various new-age fertility treatments, such as IVF, IUI, embryo freezing and egg freezing, amongst others, have emerged. These treatments act as a risk-free route for couples to achieve parenthood at a later age.

The concept of freezing eggs has become much popular in recent times. Women today are largely preferring to freeze their eggs at a reproductive age and defer the idea of pregnancy to the moment when they are finally ready. Yet, not all women choose to freeze their eggs for social reasons; some do it for medical reasons as well. Certain cancer therapies, including chemotherapy and radiation, can harm a woman's egg. To make future conception easier, it is advised that women store their eggs prior to receiving cancer treatment.

Egg freezing begins with stimulating the ovaries with hormones to create numerous eggs, then extracting the eggs from the ovaries & transporting them to the lab, where they are frozen at temperatures below zero to preserve them


Egg freezing: Benefits
Women are born with a limited number of possible eggs, known as follicles, ranging from one to two million. As a woman matures, her number of egg cells tends to decline, making pregnancy more challenging. However, with egg freezing, a woman can easily achieve pregnancy at a later age.

Egg freezing begins with stimulating the ovaries with hormones to create numerous eggs, then extracting the eggs from the ovaries and transporting them to the lab, where they are frozen at temperatures below zero to preserve them. Once frozen, they can be thawed at any time when the woman is ready to conceive.

Egg freezing: Ideal age
There is no denying the fact that the rate of fertility in men and women tends to decline as they age. They are known to be highly fertile in their twenties but the moment they enter thirties, their fertility tends to get hampered and as a result, they face more complications when it comes to conceiving.

Given the modern-day needs of couples, various fertility treatments have come to the fore. Egg freezing is one such treatment that allows a woman to freeze and preserve her eggs and achieve pregnancy at a later age. Without a doubt, timing is key in egg freezing and future pregnancy success. The ideal age for a woman to freeze her eggs is when she is in her reproductive years. Early twenties is regarded as an age when a woman is majorly fertile and as she approaches her late thirties, her fertility starts to diminish as a result of a significant decline in both the quantity and quality of her eggs. In order to achieve a healthy pregnancy at a later age, freezing your eggs before you reach your thirties is certainly advised.

Egg freezing: Healthy way of conceiving at a later age
Nowadays, infertility has become a painful reality that modern couples have to face. But with the emergence of technological advancements, new reproductive treatments have proliferated, giving couples the ability to overcome infertility. One such risk-free method for achieving a healthy pregnancy later in life is egg freezing. Given their hectic lifestyles, women can freeze their eggs at a reproductive age and get them thawed whenever they feel they are ready to start a family. The best course of action is to consult a fertility expert and plan your egg-freezing treatment.