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Social Freezing -
freezing your
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Want children of your own, but not quite yet? Luckily, women can freeze their eggs for use at a later date. Welcome to the world of social freezing, or egg freezing.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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What is Social Freezing?<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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While freezing sperm cells and embryos has long been established as standard, it was not clear until recently whether egg freezing was as effective.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2010, the first European working groups were able to show that certain freezing methods can achieve similar pregnancy rates to fresh egg cells.<\/p>\n

Initially, freezing eggs (oocyte cryopreservation) was intended mainly for women dealing with the possibility of a loss of fertility as a side effect of upcoming treatment, such as chemotherapy. However, the technique is now used to offer women more flexible life planning.<\/p>\n

It means that women who cannot or who do not want to have children at the current time for private or professional reasons can have their eggs frozen and use them at a later time to get pregnant. The term \u2018social freezing\u2019 is now commonly used to designate egg freezing for non-medical reasons.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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What is the process of social freezing?<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Social freezing can be divided into three main stages:<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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Egg collection<\/p>\r\n

The first step in social freezing is egg retrieval. This stage aims to retrieve as many eggs as possible. Typically, the woman will undergo a hormone treatment in order to stimulate the eggs into maturity. This is monitored with regular ultrasound examinations, before the eggs are removed via a quick and typically painless procedure.<\/p>\n

Luckily, the woman does not have to worry that her natural egg reserve will be reduced by this egg retrieval as in the natural cycle, a single follicle would fight against other follicles, and the ‘losers’ would be lost. In this case, the stimulation accesses this otherwise lost monthly egg pool, so actually the woman’s total number of ‘eligible’ eggs increases with social freezing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n

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The retrieved eggs are then frozen at minus 196\u00b0C where they can be safely stored for decades. Of course, the higher the number of eggs, the greater the chances of one of them resulting in a successful pregnancy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n

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If the wish to have a child is not fulfilled naturally, the couple can use cryopreserved eggs. These are fertilised with the partner’s (or a sperm donor’s) sperm outside the body (in vitro fertilisation). Subsequently, one to three of the resulting embryos are transferred into the uterus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n

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Egg freezing: Biological background<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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A woman is born with the amount of eggs she will have for her entire life. This reserve of eggs only shrinks over time.<\/p>\n

This means that as a woman ages, two problems arise in terms of her fertility:<\/p>\n