The American Society for Reproductive Medicine estimates that egg banking gives you more than a 54% chance of becoming pregnant. Also known as oocyte cryopreservation, egg banking Newport Beach is still a relatively new method for preserving fertility. Egg banking involves retrieving mature and unfertilized eggs from a woman. The eggs your health specialist retrieves from you are then frozen and stored for future use.
Good candidates for egg banking
When you visit a facility for egg banking, your health provider will ensure that you undergo a comprehensive examination to ensure you are the ideal candidate. For instance, if you have a hormonal imbalance due to abnormal thyroid, your doctor will have to treat you first before starting ovulation induction.
You may be a good candidate for egg banking and freezing if you are not in a relationship and wish to have children later. Preserving your eggs at the right age allows you to be at less risk of having problems conceiving in the future. Also, this fertility preservation method can reduce genetic issues related to aging that may affect your pregnancy.
Preservation of eggs may also be excellent if you have cancer, endometriosis, and autoimmune diseases. Cancer treatments, particularly chemotherapy, tend to destroy your ovaries, preventing them from producing eggs and estrogen.
Egg freezing is also great for you if you have a history of premature menopause.
Acquisition and storage of eggs
Like in vitro fertilization, egg banking and freezing start with ovulation induction. That means that you have to undergo stimulation of egg development and release (ovulation).
Historically, ovulation induction was for women incapable of ovulating independently, especially those with irregular menstruation.
Ovulation induction is also excellent for increasing the number of eggs that can mature in a single cycle, which is essential for boosting the possibility of getting pregnant.
The fertility medications at your doctor’s disposal for inducing ovulation may include Clomiphene Citrate and FSH medications. Clomiphene citrate is a pill for triggering ovulation by blocking estrogen receptors. Due to the drug’s effect, your body is misled into believing that estrogen levels are insufficient.
As a result, your body triggers the creation of additional follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), which is vital for encouraging the growth of eggs.
On the other hand, FSH drugs ensure that during the stimulation of your ovulation cycle, there is a development of more than one egg. You may need to take hormone-stimulating medicines every day for about two weeks to have a chance of producing several eggs during your normal ovulation cycle.
Once there is a production of multiple eggs, your doctor then surgically retrieves them from your follicles.
The eggs your doctor retrieves are then frozen and stored in a proper facility until you need them to get pregnant and raise a family. Egg freezing is safe and thus does not lead to any chromosomal defects.
Once you need frozen or thawed eggs to start a family, you may receive some medications for preparing your uterine lining. Then, your doctor fertilizes your egg with sperm from your partner or husband. The transfer of the embryo happens after a few days.
Contact YourEggs today to request an appointment for egg banking.
