Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ZvRgZ8D8K1c   Women who elect to freeze their eggs in their 20s or early 30s are more than twice as likely to later become pregnant and more than 3.5 times more likely to deliver a baby when compared with women who use IVF techniques.  NYU gynecologists studied 543 patients who froze their eggs and compared their pregnancy success with controls who began using IVF at age 40 or later.   Women who froze eggs under age 38 and thawed 20 or more mature eggs enjoyed the highest live birth rate of 70%.  This rate was lowered to 58% when women who froze eggs as late as 44 were included.  In contrast, IVF for women at age 40 yielded only a 30% pregnancy rate and only a 20% live birth rate.   The bottom line: women who want children a bit later in life should plan ahead and freeze their eggs.   https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(22)00254-0/fulltext   #pregnancy #ivf #eggfreezing