Researchers followed 108 women who underwent egg freezing.

This is what they discovered

The study conducted by researchers from Israel found that almost all women did not use eggs, and a few percent of them eventually managed to get pregnant.

Here's all they found out about the procedure

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11/05/2022

Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 07:46 Updated: 08:34

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Freezing eggs is one of the means by which women can "extend" the time limit for getting pregnant and increase the chances of becoming pregnant in the future - even if they suffer from a certain medical problem that affects their fertility, and also in old age.

In recent years this option has become particularly available, and many women are choosing it to increase their chances of getting pregnant in the future.

Planned egg preservation (POC) seems to be a reasonable option for women in their 30s who are not currently interested in having children, but are interested in maintaining a chance of a future pregnancy using their eggs.

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A new study by Prof. Talia Miron Schatz of the Ono Academic Campus, a social psychologist who specializes in making medical decisions of patients and doctors, reviewed the procedures undergone by women who have decided on an egg freezing procedure.

The survey group included 108 women who had undergone the freezing process at least 4 years earlier.

The contact with the women was made over the phone, usually by the attending physician and the women who agreed to participate were sent a link to a survey that included 34 questions, which among other things examined the reflections regarding the physical and emotional considerations of the egg preservation process.

Between 2011 and 2018, 477 women were examined during the freeze, almost all of the women who participated were single and childless.

Most of the women had an academic education and the most common occupations of the women were teaching, law, architecture, and then more finely architecture and social work, services / sales / security.

The average age of the women at the time of entry into the freeze preservation was 36.6.

At the time of the survey, having passed between 5-6 years since egg freezing, the average age of the respondents was 42.6.

Only one-fifth of women end up using eggs.

Pregnant woman holds an ultrasound image (Photo: ShutterStock)

How many women took advantage of the eggs for pregnancy?

In this study, the rate of egg utilization was about 20 percent and only three women achieved childbirth through the eggs.

Non-utilization of eggs was explained for two main reasons: pregnancy without the use of frozen eggs or delaying conception due to the absence of a mate.

During the follow-up period, 63 percent of the women reported trying to conceive naturally or using assistive reproductive technology using fresh or preserved eggs.

Of these, only 64 percent of those who tried to conceive.

When asked whether egg freezing affected their attempts to conceive, only 13 women (19 percent) answered in the affirmative.

Of these women, all but one noted that the egg-freezing experience motivated them to take action - such as trying to conceive earlier than previously expected, starting fertility treatment shortly after marriage, or choosing a sperm donor treatment instead of waiting for a partner.

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It seems that the women who underwent egg freezing did so to 'buy time'.

They preferred to 'rescue' their frozen eggs and first try to conceive naturally or through a sperm donor and fresh eggs, and for them the freezing process was a kind of 'insurance certificate'.

Another notable feature was the large proportion of ultra-Orthodox and unmarried women who chose to take part in the procedure.

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