Questions to ask yourself before freezing your eggs

Before you can undergo the donation procedure, you need to answer the following questions:

1. Why do I do it?

There are many reasons why women choose to have their eggs frozen. As mentioned above, many women livings in Europe or America, where the medicine is most advanced, are recommended to freeze their oocytes if the woman is facing a major surgery that involves the reproductive system, or if she must fight cancer. The latter involves aggressive therapy, which, including radiation, can negate the chances of having a healthy baby or just having children later in life. It’s fine for those women who must have their ovaries removed for medical reasons-if they can now produce healthy eggs. They should think about having healthy offspring in the future.

A small, not all, proportion are also women who want to freeze their eggs to have children in the future. Often these women are focused on their careers, they want first to create a base for raising children, to have a good social status, and only then to have a family. And, while this used to be available only to showbiz stars, now any woman can decide for herself to put off having children until later.

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2. Am I making the right decision?

Deciding why you want to freeze your eggs now is a very individual decision. It depends on many factors, but the woman who takes this step should have the final say, not the opinion of the public or her friends. In the end, the situation can be different. Deborah, who we talked about above, ended up finding the perfect clinic for oocyte freezing. After going through a long road of treatment for premature menopause, she eventually decided to freeze not just her oocytes, but already fertilized oocytes. Her husband’s sperm was used for this purpose. But before you take such a step, you must make sure that you want to have children with your current partner, and your lives will be united forever.

At the same time, freezing eggs that have already been fertilized is considered more effective. But if your partner is over 40 years old by the time you thaw the eggs, it can lead to pregnancy failures. So, if you want to live with your partner for the rest of your life, and he is willing to do it himself, freeze the eggs already fertilized by his sperm. This will not affect the quality of frozen oocytes in any way but will seriously increase the chances of a successful pregnancy in the future, because the male reproductive system also has a sad tendency to age, and at 40 years no man will not give such good sperm parameters as at 25.