Why Egg Freezing is Trending Among Modern Women in 2018

You can postpone motherhood past your prime childbearing years through the medical marvel of egg freezing – oocyte cryopreservation – Cutting Edge IVF Technology. Pregnancy success rates using a woman’s egg that has been cryopreserved are comparable to success rates using a fresh egg. Egg freezing is a phenomenal technology available for today’s women to preserve their fertility for tomorrow. Today’s women want to ensure they have the ability to be biologically connected to their children in the future.

Egg Freezing in 2018

The natural aging process has a dramatic effect on the quality of a woman’s eggs. A woman in her prime reproductive years (early 20s and early 30s) has the option of freezing her eggs to preserve her future fertility into her advanced reproductive years (mid-30s and early 40s + beyond):

• Today’s modern women who are focused on their education and career opportunities
• Women whose circumstances in life are not presently conducive to rearing children
• Women who have not be able to find their life partner
• Women who are facing cancer treatment – chemo or radiation – that could damage the quality of their eggs and/or destroy their ovarian function by sending them into premature menopause
• Women who are undergoing IVF and are likely to produce excessive eggs, but have ethical or religious concerns over freezing embryos

Egg Freezing Process in Conjunction with IVF

Egg freezing is accomplished through a fresh IVF cycle, stopping short of egg fertilization in vitro.

• Stimulation of a woman’s ovaries using fertility drugs to produce several egg follicles during one fresh IVF cycle
• Harvesting eggs from the woman’s ovaries through surgical retrieval
• Preparation and freezing of the eggs for preservation through a process known as vitrification
• The rapid-freezing technique of vitrification makes it possible to freeze eggs quickly so that ice crystals do not form between cells

Preserving Your Fertility Through Egg Freezing

When the woman is ready to start building her family, the egg freezing process continues.

• Her eggs are thawed and fertilized in vitro by injecting a single sperm cell into a single egg – Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
• The resulting embryos are cultured in vitro for up to 5 days (blastocyst stage)
• A predetermined number of quality embryos are transferred into the woman’s uterus for implantation into the uterine lining to achieve pregnancy

New Hope Fertility Center is a leader in egg freezing. Dr. John Zhang was one of the first doctors in the United States to implement the vitrification method of egg freezing. Dr. Zhang was the first doctor in New York to facilitate a live birth from a frozen egg. Vitrification is a flash freezing method preventing the formation of ice crystals between the cells making up a healthy egg.

Revolutionary Mini-IVF™

For women who do not want to freeze and excessive number of her eggs, our Mini-IVF™ is a gentle – yet successful – holistic protocol helping to retrieve 3 to 5 high quality eggs. Your cost per Mini-IVF™ cycle is reduced because less fertility medications are prescribed. Pregnancy success rates for Mini-IVF™ are comparable to Conventional IVF.

Customized Egg Freezing Program

It is important to work with a fertility doctor having the experience required to design a customized egg freezing protocol meeting your personal needs. To schedule your initial consultation with Dr. John Zhang, call 917.525.5496.