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EGG FREEZING
egg freezing
Whether you want to postpone pregnancy or have a medical condition that affects your fertility, egg freezing may preserve your ability to have a baby in the future. We believe that all women should have the right to decide when they want to conceive, and egg freezing helps you do that! Dr. Macer uses his expertise and a state-of-the-art facility to ensure optimal success.
The process is quick and takes about 10-12 days from start to finish. To learn more about egg freezing, contact us today!
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Get the Benefits of Egg Freezing in Los Angeles, Rolling Hills Estates & Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Fertility is a sensitive subject, and you should only be cared for by the best physicians in order to ensure you have the best chances of a successful pregnancy when you’re ready to grow your family. Halo Fertility recognizes that sometimes medical conditions can get in the way of your plans, adversely impacting fertility in the future. The good news is that you can ensure fertility later if you experience a medical condition that requires treatments that could harm fertility. Or you may simply want to wait until later in your life to start your family. Egg freezing in Los Angeles, Rolling Hills Estates & Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, may be your solution.
Freeze Your Eggs for Later Use
Whether you have cancer or another medical condition that could harm future fertility or expect to start your family later in life, egg freezing is worth exploring. Your doctor can recommend whether this option is advised or not and our team at Halo Fertility will support you every step of the way. While you may not need the eggs, it’s always best to be prepared to ensure you can achieve your dream of growing your family when you’re ready.
The Egg Freezing Process
If you decide to pursue egg freezing for fertility in Los Angeles, Rolling Hills Estates & Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, your doctor will start treatment like the hormones used in IVF procedures to trigger your body to release multiple eggs. Your fertility doctor will then retrieve the eggs and freeze them. Your eggs will be available to unfreeze and fertilize using your partner’s or donated sperm when you’re ready to get pregnant. Your eggs will remain in the same fertile state they were in when they were retrieved, giving you a high chance of getting pregnant with a healthy baby.
EGG FREEZING
frequently asked questions
Egg freezing is a process in which a woman’s eggs are retrieved, frozen in time, and stored in liquid nitrogen. When you’re ready to become pregnant, the eggs are carefully thawed and fertilized in the lab with your partner’s or a donor’s sperm. Several days later, the embryos can be used to help you conceive.
While it’s not technically egg freezing, you also have another alternative. You may choose to fertilize the eggs first, then freeze the embryos for future implantation into your uterus.
Egg freezing is also called elective fertility preservation, which simply highlights the fact that this is an elective or personal decision that women make for many different reasons. Dr. Macer believes that every woman should be in charge of her own future, and by freezing eggs, he can help relieve any stress of needing to become pregnant by a certain age. There is no optimal age to freeze your eggs, but the quality and number of eggs remaining in the ovaries decrease over time, so don’t hesitate and at least come in for a consult!
Alternatively, many women make the decision to freeze their eggs because they have a medical problem that will affect their ability to get pregnant, such as:
- Cancer treatment that requires chemotherapy, pelvic radiation, or removal of your ovaries
- Premature ovarian failure
- Gynecological diseases that affect ovulation
- Gynecological diseases that may damage the ovaries
- Need to treat a gynecological problem with surgery that may damage the ovaries
- Elective ovary removal due to a high genetic risk for disease
Since chemotherapy and radiation can damage your eggs and/or your ovaries, it’s important to talk with Dr. Macer about egg preservation as soon as you learn about your diagnosis.
The eggs in your ovaries must mature before they can be removed and frozen. For 1-2 weeks, you’ll receive injections of medications that promote egg maturation. During that time, Dr. Macer closely monitors your ovaries using ultrasound and blood tests.
When the tests show your eggs are mature, they’re gently removed from your ovaries. Dr. Macer uses ultrasound imaging to guide a needle through your vagina and into the ovary and withdraws the eggs, and then they’re quickly frozen.