#egg-freezing

#egg-freezing

Toronto lawyer Salima Fakirani was 31 when she decided to freeze her eggs. She had been considering it for a couple of years, and had even gone for a consult at a fertility clinic. But when her employer introduced egg-freezing benefits, she decided to go for it. She did two rounds of egg freezing and got a "good number" of her eggs into storage.

If she can afford it, tell the LW to freeze her eggs! We have one amazing daughter, but haven't been able to have any more children (just two miscarriages, three egg retrievals with only one healthy embryo, and then a failed embryo transfer). Egg quality decreases with age and starts to drop quickly after 40-if she can bank some eggs now, she can buy herself some time for family-building and take the pressure off of meeting someone immediately. Wishing her luck.

"If I had known about freezing eggs and doing IVF in my 20s, I would have done it," she says. "But it wasn't talked about as much as it is now, and I think that's why I'm so open and honest about it."

The guideline committee considered a recent survey by the fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which showed almost three-quarters of people who had had fertility treatment between September and October 2024 had said they were using additional tests or emerging technologies, despite most not being proven to work. And only 37% of those questioned said the risks of any add-ons had been explained.

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