Risks & Benefits

Benefits of Egg Freezing for Fertility Preservation

• Preserves fertility beyond the natural span, giving a woman more choice, more freedom, and more control over her reproductive life.
• Increases the chance to have a genetically related child if pregnancy is delayed by choice or circumstance.
• Avoids any moral or religious objections that might accompany the freezing of embryos.

Risks of Elective Fertility Preservation

• Although rare, hormonal stimulation before harvesting eggs carries a risk of a serious condition, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, which can require hospitalization.
• Pregnancies in women over 35-years-of-age are considered high risk, and have a higher incidence of serious, adverse outcomes for both the mother and the child
• Egg freezing is still considered a research procedure and there are no guarantees that a pregnancy will be achieved.