The report emphasizes that the currently available data are too limited to allow egg freezing to be considered an established medical treatment. However, many women understandably have an interest in this emerging technology as an elective fertility preservation strategy. (Source: IVF News)Ok, you may be thinking what does freezing your eggs have to do with counseling. The bottom line is that people are thinking this is going to be a great way to deter the inevitable aging of eggs. Thus, you can use your own 23 year old eggs when you're looking to have a child at 43.
On the surface, not a bad idea. Younger eggs are always a better bet...but freezing? What worries me most is that the women considering freezing only see the potential upside. The potential downsides are kind of swept under the rug.
Have you ever put chocolate in the freezer? When you take it out, it's discolored from the cocoa doing some chemical dance from the temperature drop. It's still fine to consume, but...do you think that something as delicate as a human egg is going to still be right as rain if it separates like the chocolate? What about freezer burn?
No matter how advanced the technology, no matter how careful the scientist or doctor...you're still putting a living thing into a freezer. A very, very cold freezer. And then you're hoping for the best.
I can understand why counseling is strongly recommended. It should be. Because this is not one of the better ideas I've heard for having a child later in life.
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