Freezing Embryos For Future Use By: Stuart Smith

In Vitro Fertilisation treatment often produces more eggs than necessary because the ovaries are being stimulated which means that more healthy fertilized eggs are created than necessary. Fortunately, many infertility clinics will offer the opportunity to have the embryos frozen and stored away safely for use at a future time. This can be as part of the In Vitro Impregnation agreement, or as an extra service for which you may have to pay. Your fertilized eggs may also be able to be stored for future use if your projected treatment needs to be postponed after egg collection - for example, if you have over responded to the drugs.

Having to produce more eggs can be a tough and often expensive process so by already having them stored, should you decide to use In Vitro Fertilization again, your fertilized eggs will be immediately available. Another benefit to this approach is that you can improve your prospects of conception from one egg collection and avoid the risk of Ovarian Hyper-Stimulation syndrome from further fertility treatments. Fertilized eggs can normally be frozen and stored for up to five years, although this can be sometimes be extended. This means that even if you or you partner are diagnosed at a later stage with a fertility problem for example, it will still be possible to have In Vitro Fertilisation treatment.

Under certain conditions, a 10 year maximum for storage is made - normally if there is an illness involved. Under special conditions it may be possible to store them for even longer than ten years. The choice to freeze and store your fertilized eggs is yours and can be removed at any time. All the same, while your fertilized eggs are stored away safely at the clinic, they have a duty to keep in regular touch to confirm that you wish to carry on storing them at their facility. If you move house, divorce or there are any other change of circumstances, it is always worth letting your infertility clinic know about them. In the case of get a divorce for instance, just because this has happened, it does not necessarily mean that either partners approval to use the embryos has been removed.

Before your embryos are stored they are frozen in a vat of liquid nitrogen, the exact term for this is cryopreservation. Only healthy, embryos that have been growing normally will be selected for freezing. It is large to remember that embryos are fragile and although handled with extreme care, not all of them will withstand the freezing and thawing procedure. Because of this fact, it is worth having more fertilized eggs thawed than can be used during the transfer process at the next In Vitro Fertilization treatment.

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