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Eggfreezing: Precautions for a (later) desire to have children

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EGGFREEZING - FREEZING EGGS

Egg freezing and social egg freezing allow young women to freeze their eggs. As a result, they are available at a later date for artificial insemination.

Dr. Brunbauer, YOUR CHILD DESIRE EXPERT IN VIENNA

PROVISION FOR A LATER POINT IN TIME (SOCIAL FREEZING)

The desire to have a baby can be realized by this method even at an advanced maternal age. Egg freezing gives women the option to postpone their family planning.

The reasons might be the following:

  • You want to promote education and career first.
  • The relationship should be strengthened first.
  • The right partner has not been found yet.
  • You want to enjoy life carefree and unrestricted.
  • You strive to create a stable financial and social foundation first.

Egg Freezing means women freeze young eggs as a reproductive precaution.

Egg freezing is allowed in many countries. In Austria, however, legal restrictions apply.

Social freezing, which is the freezing of eggs without medical indication, is prohibited in Austria. Egg cells may only be removed and stored if there is a risk of loss of fertility due to physical suffering or therapy (e.g. chemotherapy) - they should not be cryopreserved for reasons of simpler family planning.

The medical need is given among others in these cases:

  • Ovarian cysts or endometriosis: surgery may also require the removal of parts of the ovary.
  • Treatments that can harm the ovaries.
  • Autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes mellitus
  • Cancer treatments, in which oocytes are destroyed by chemo- or radiotherapy or in which the ovaries must be removed.

The desire to have a baby can be realized by this method even at an advanced maternal age. Egg freezing gives women the option to postpone their family planning.

The reasons might be the following:

  • You want to promote education and career first.
  • The relationship should be strengthened first.
  • The right partner has not been found yet.
  • You want to enjoy life carefree and unrestricted.
  • You strive to create a stable financial and social foundation first.

Egg Freezing means women freeze young eggs as a reproductive precaution.

OVERVIEW PROCEDURE EGGFREEZING

1. First meeting

Consultation and start of treatment

2. Examinations

Required gynecological examinations in the clinic

Start: on the 2nd day of menstruation

3. Maturation of egg cells

Stimulation of the ovaries by daily hormone supplements 

End of stimulation: usually on the 10th - 12th day of stimulation.

4. Puncture

Removal of mature oocytes in sedoanalgesia

5. Cryoconservation

Freezing and storage of oocytes for possible future treatments

6. Pregnancy by IVF/ICSI/P-ICSI

We are happy to assist you if you want to freeze eggs before starting a treatment or because of your genetic predisposition. Our team has years of experience in cryopreservation. Our laboratory meets the latest technical standards. Our clinic offers you the necessary confidentiality. After a detailed initial consultation, we plan your treatment in detail.

After the initial consultation, we first perform all necessary gynecological examinations. On the basis of the examination results, we will plan the next steps. Usually we carry out a hormone stimulation to mature several egg cells. At their optimal maturity we aspire the oocytes through the vagina, during a small, painless intervention, which is carried out in sedoanalgesia (short anesthesia).

The extracted egg cells are frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored for you. If possible, we store up to 30 oocytes, so that a sufficient number is available for a later artificial insemination. The majority of egg cells survive the freezing without getting any harm and their quality does not decrease, even if they are stored for years. As soon as you want to get pregnant, we thaw the eggs during the course of an artificial insemination (IVF) and insert them into your uterus after fertilization.

 

Take advantage of the possibilities of modern medicine. Arrange an initial meeting with us.
We are happy to inform and advise you about Egg Freezing.

Egg freezing is a way to induce pregnancy at a later date. 60 - 85% of all women who use frozen eggs for artificial insemination become pregnant. There is no guarantee, however.The success depends largely on the age of the woman at the time egg cells were frozen, as well as duringartificial insemination.

Since the number of oocytes decreases with age, chances of success are the highest if the oocytes were removed and cryopreservedbefore the age of 35. Another reason is, that the risk of genetic defects increases: in a 30-year-old woman, about every fourth ovum is chromosomally healthy, whereas at the age of 40, only one egg cell out of 6-8 is in perfect condition.

In principle, you should not postpone your family planning too far into the future. The younger you are at the onset of the fertilized egg, the smoother the pregnancy and the lower the risks for your baby.

Arztzitat - Dr. Mathias Brunbauer

Dr. Mathias Brunbauer

Medical director | SPC for gynecology and obstetrics | IVF-specialist

"I agree with Novalis, who said: A child is a love that has become visible. We support you in making your love visible."

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In egg freezing or social egg freezing, young women have their eggs frozen. This makes them available for artificial insemination at a later date. The desire to have a child can still be fulfilled by this method at an advanced age, as soon as the right time for pregnancy has come for the woman.

However, social egg freezing is prohibited in Austria.

In Austria, oocytes may only be retrieved and stored if there is a risk of losing the ability to reproduce due to a physical condition or therapy (e.g. chemotherapy).

Only for reasons of simpler family planning, oocytes may not be cryopreserved.

In Austria, medical necessity is a prerequisite. This is given in these cases, among others:

  • In the case of ovarian cysts or endometriosis: if parts of the ovary have to be removed by surgery.
  • In the case of treatments that affect the ovaries.
  • In autoimmune diseases, such as or Diabetes Mellitus, HashimotoThyroiditis.
  • In cancers where chemotherapy or radiotherapy destroys the eggs or where the ovaries have to be removed.

We first have an initial conservation with you. After that, we perform all the necessary examinations. As a rule, hormone stimulation is then carried out, which results in the growth of several oocytes. We collect the eggs at the optimal time of maturation and freeze them in liquid nitrogen.

If possible, we store up to 30 oocytes so that there are sufficient oocytes for later artificial insemination. The majority of eggs survive the freezing process without damage. The quality of the eggs does not decrease even if they are stored for years.

60 to 85 percent of all women who use frozen eggs for artificial insemination become pregnant. However, there is no guarantee. Success depends largely on the age of the woman when the eggs are retrieved and on how old she is when the artificial insemination is performed.

The best chance of success is when the eggs are retrieved and cryopreserved before the age of 35. This is because the number of eggs decreases with age. At the same time, the risk of genetic defects increases.