What to expect during the egg freezing process
Preserving your fertility with egg freezing is a personal decision that we help you navigate. If you choose to move forward with egg freezing, the process includes:
You receive hormone therapy that helps your body grow eggs. The fertility drugs—injections or pills—cause your ovaries to grow multiple eggs.
You come to the clinic several times for us to check your hormone levels and egg development. These tests help us determine when your eggs are mature enough for retrieval.
Your doctor performs a minor procedure to retrieve mature eggs from your ovaries. You receive sedation drugs so that you’re drowsy and don’t feel any pain. Then, we insert an ultrasound probe into your vagina and use a thin needle to draw out each mature egg.
We immediately freeze your eggs using advanced techniques to preserve their health. They are kept in our secure laboratory until you’re ready to use them for IVF. When you’re ready to try IVF to get pregnant, our infertility specialists thaw your eggs and fertilize them with sperm from your partner or a donor. Then, we transfer the embryo into your uterus.