Wanted: Egg freezing stories

[48JJ]

Hi, I have done a number of rounds of egg freezing but have a big drop off between eggs retrieved and mature eggs. My new clinic also freeze immature eggs to carry out IVM on them at the time I come to use them. I now have 28/ 29 mature eggs stored (one was made mature before freezing but not sure it will be as good as the others). Then I also have 11 immature eggs frozen.

A lot of the stories on here are about IVF and although I use them to help me understand the process a bit more, it would be great to hear about other people’s egg freezing stories (successful or not successful).

Not sure if I can feel secure in the number I have or whether I should do more rounds. I’d love to think they’d allow me the opportunity to at least have two children. Also worried about the quality of my eggs, even the mature ones, if lots of them don’t mature. My eggs are 34 and 35 years old.

If you have an egg freezing story, I’d love to hear it!

[Missfh]

It's so hard to say, as egg quality varies widely and you really don't know what you have until you make embryos with them.

I froze 14 eggs in my late 30s, collected over 3 rounds, and only 2 survived the thaw, which made 1 embryo, transferred day 3 and unsuccessful. This is definitely unusual and isn't the experience of many - you can usually expect around 75 percent to survive the thaw, but it's just an example of what can happen.

Some other solo mums I know took the step to fertilise eggs using a sperm donor and then freeze embryos instead of eggs which has a far higher chance of success - in hindsight I wish I'd done that.

Having said all that, I then ended up going the egg donor route and have the most perfect little baby girl who I wouldn't swap for an own-egg baby in a million years so it all worked out perfectly in the end ❤️

Best of luck X

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Hi JJ. A t least you have quite a number of mature eggs to start off with, which can only be good. No too sure about immature eggs, unless they can grow them on in the lab. Good luck. Diane