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What Age Should I Freeze My Eggs

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What Age Should I Freeze My Eggs?

The short answer is the earlier the better. Studies show that banking eggs at an younger age increases the likelihood of having a successful birth after. However, these studies also show that women who bank their eggs earlier are less likely to use them, because they have more time to conceive naturally. Keep in mind, these findings don’t apply if you’re freezing your eggs due to health issues that impact your fertility directly.

So, what’s the recommended age for egg freezing if you don’t have any health threats?

It turns out there are two major age-related factors that can help answer this question: egg quantity and quality. For the best egg freezing results, you need to know at what …show more content…

Tolga Mesen found in his research that the highest probability of live birth >74% occurred when eggs were frozen before 34 years of age. However, most doctors say that freezing your eggs before the age of 37 is fine. This recommended age is when the quality and quantity of a woman’s egg is still suitable for egg freezing.

What if I’m older than 37 years?

Good news: Women still conceive naturally at this age.

The CDC reports that nearly 120,000 women in their 40s give a birth every year in the United States, with only 9% of these births resulting from IVF.

However, at some point in their 40s, women experience Diminished Ovarian Reserve. This means that women no longer have healthy eggs to fertilize naturally or retrieve for preservation. The condition may occur at younger age due to disease or injury, but it most commonly occurs as a result of the normal aging process.

Dr. Dominic Stoop suggests the ideal age for the egg freezing is 31-35. However, although eggs from women in 36-40 years will result in fewer pregnancies because of lower egg quality, he adds that “these women may still benefit given the accelerated age-related decline in fertility after the age of 40 years”. In other words, if you’re 36 or older and you’re not trying to conceive right now, you’re more likely achieve pregnancy success later if you freeze your eggs

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