Top Egg Freezing Tips From a Fertility Doctor

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Fertility doctor Natalie Crawford, MD talks about egg freezing and gives top tips for things you should consider if you are thinking about freezing you eggs.

Questions answered:

1. What is egg freezing
2. When should I freeze my eggs? What is the best age to freeze your eggs?
3. How many eggs do I need to freeze? What is the goal number of eggs?
4. What is ovarian reserve? Does age really impact your fertility?
5. How many eggs survive the freeze/thaw process?
6. What is egg freezing? How long does egg freezing take?
7. How many cycles or rounds of egg freezing do I need?
8. What is the egg retrieval procedure like?
9. Does egg freezing cause me to run out of eggs?

Study discussed:
Mesen TB, Mersereau JE, Kane JB, Steiner AZ. Optimal timing for elective egg freezing. Fertil Steril. 2015 Jun;103(6):1551-6.e1-4.

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Dr. Natalie Crawford, MD is a double board certified OBGYN and REI, and co-founder of Fora Fertility, a boutique fertility practice in Austin, Texas.

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[elizabethrincon]

I never realized how much "loss" was involved in the IVF process until I went through it myself -- only about 30% of my mature eggs (and later embryos) made it to Day 6 blastocysts, and there's always the chance to lose others during freeze/thaw and the transfer process (not to mention miscarriage)... it's crazy! So what started as 10 good-looking eggs has now turned into 2 frozen embryos, and one hopefully sticky transfer (currently at 5 weeks, 3 days pregnant).

[drsareekakatkuriphysiother]

I am doing egg freezing 2 years later than I was advised. I regret but I'm still hopeful

[mirkahernandez]

This video was very helpful. Thank you!

[MakedaPhillips]

I know it must vary a lot but can you talk about the cost? How much does it cost to keep the eggs frozen? That will determine when I want to do it.

[hchan]

Is age the number one factor that determines the quality of eggs? Or does lifestyle and genetics play a role too?

[katielund]

Does freezing your eggs or donating eggs affect your future fertility? I assume negative impacts on fertility would be due to age since the cells are going to be depleted anyway.

[jeanne]

my question is How minimum number of eggs need I freeze ? I have a very modest overian reserve (aged 36).

[scottishgirl]

Another great video!! About to start IUI whenever my period starts should be in the next 4 day i took my last progesterone dose yesterday. Also got my first dose of Pfizer yesterday my MIL went crazy when I decided to take my first dose she doesn’t agree with the vaccine...

[niquetabouri]

I'm 40. Do I have a chance to freeze eggs??? And where can I do this??

[afsutton]

What if someone has a condition like PCOS? Would that mean you would need to get an IUD out in order to do the pretesting before Egg freezing happens?

[toniivanova]

I’m 19 y.o .My AMH is 0, 83 is it normal can I get pregnant naturally? Is it good idea to freeze eggs ?

[koboldienchen]

Hi, thanks so much for the video! Could egg freezing mess with your hormones with certain diseases? eg. i have graves disease and am concerned that the hormones I would take for the egg freezing process could irritate my thyroid or worsen my disease... should this be a concern? (of course I will talk to my doctor about it, but I just thought that might be interesting for more people here :-) )

[lezmacon]

I’m 22 looking to freeze my eggs as an option

[carlairving]

Hi! Thanks a lot, super useful and instructive as usual. I'm about to start my first IVF protocol with sperm donor. Is there a significant difference between egg freezing and embryo freezing in terms of life birth rates at the end? I am at the stage of figuring out what would qualify as a number of eggs/embryos I would feel good about.

My understanding is that embryo freezing would probably be better, as I would know how many would make it through the fertilization and blastocysts stage. I don't mind buying more sperm vials, as their cost is minimal in the whole IVF process (I'm a queer to-be single mom by choice so no reasons for me to keep eggs in case I ever met a partner so we could use their sperm for fertilization, that's out of the table).

That being said, I worry that the thaw process could be more complicated or risky with blastocysts than eggs. Is this so?

[SmultronsyltNatha]

Is the live birth percentage based on PGD-tested normal embryos or blastocysts in general? My clinic told me that my chances were 40-50% for each embryo transfer (I’m 30, non-smoker, don’t drink, normal weight), but I’m not sure if they’re basing that estimate on embryo transfers in general or PGD-tested embryo transfers (we’re doing PGD). I’m getting a bit concerned about the quality of the clinic if the same procedure has a dramatically higher success rate in other clinics.

[iknowyouwanttofly]

What. I am freezing my eggs in sweden I dlnt have a supression face at all.

[charlie]

If a virgin does the egg freezing process, will her hymen break?

[bobbg]

Don't put off having kids, do it at a young age. 18 to 34. After that its harder to manage. No 62 year old wants to deal with a teenager, there tough enough at age 30 to manage, at age 62 your older looking at retirement at 30 your in the prime of your life. Wating is selfishness.