Give yourself the “choice of when”

Egg Freezing offers the opportunity to preserve your fertility potential at the age you freeze your eggs.

If you try to have children later in life, your chance of success could be higher using your younger frozen eggs, as egg quality decreases with age. The journey is personal to each and every one of us.

Everybody Has Their Own Timeline

So many factors in life can dictate when you want to start a family. The timing that’s right for you may not align with what is optimal for your fertility. You could be busy with your career, love-life, travel plans, or just not ready to have children. Egg freezing could help to preserve your fertility potential for when the time is right.

When should you freeze your eggs? That’s up to you.

Just like the decision to start a family there may be other financial commitments to consider such as travel, investments, large purchases, or savings.
By taking out an affordable pre-paid plan, you can set a timeline that works for you. Choosing to freeze eggs with an Egg Freeze Plan not only provides the reassurance of having younger eggs frozen for when you are ready, it also gives the freedom to plan your finances to freeze at a time that  suits you.

Gender affirmation

Transitioning from female to male can lead to either partial or complete fertility loss. If you are starting hormone therapy or planning to have reconstructive surgery, you may wish to consider egg freezing.
This will enable you to use your own eggs in the future.

Success Rates

With the advances in technology in recent years, egg freezing has become a reliable treatment option and is increasingly popular. The benefit of freezing eggs instead of embryos is that you can keep your options open for the future. Whether that’s because you’ve not yet met the right person or aren’t ready to think about using a sperm donor.
Success rates using frozen eggs are now comparable with using fresh eggs.
How many eggs do you need to freeze to be successful?  Use our Viability Calculator, built with the University of Aberdeen, using all recent UK HFEA datasets available.

Viability Calculator

When should I freeze my eggs?

Age is one of the most important factors influencing the success of egg freezing. Egg quality and quantity are generally highest in your 20s and early 30s, which can improve the chances of a future pregnancy. For many people, freezing eggs before age 35 offers the best balance of egg quality and future reproductive options.

People with ovaries are born with all the eggs they will ever have. As they age, genetic quality and the number of available eggs both diminish. They do not regenerate and your body is not able to make new eggs. Once they are gone, they are gone.

Is egg freezing is still possible over the age of 35?

Egg quality begins to decline more rapidly after the age of 35, and most rapidly after the age of 38.

Egg freezing is still possible over the age of 35, although studies have shown that pregnancy rates are lower when using eggs frozen from the late 30s to 40s.

Find out more about your chances.

Viability Calculator

What is the most common age for egg freezing in the UK?

It is currently 35. While it can still be worthwhile freezing eggs at 35, you’ll have a higher chance of success if you can freeze at a younger age.

If you are freezing eggs at an older age you will need to freeze more eggs to have a better chance of success, and may find it takes more than one cycle to retrieve your optimal number of eggs.
The aim of our plans is to help people plan ahead so they can freeze eggs earlier, when they can be most successful. We hope to make fertility preservation affordable for everyone who wants to freeze.

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How do I know if my egg quality is good?

The best predictor of egg quality is still age, but there are several health, nutrition and lifestyle factors that can also play a part in the quality of your eggs in any given month.

As well as freezing your eggs at a younger age, there are lots of things you can pay attention to in the months leading up to your egg freezing cycle and during it to maximise the quality of the eggs you plan to freeze.