Fertility Preservation

What is fertility preservation?

Fertility preservation means saving your eggs when they're at the healthiest and most viable. If you're not ready to have a baby right now but want to keep the option open for later, fertility preservation can save your healthiest eggs for later when you need them. 

The Fertility Center of Orlando offers egg harvesting and freezing along with a variety of other procedures to help you have a child on your own time and in your own way.

Fertility preservation means saving your eggs when they're at the healthiest and most viable. If you're not ready to have a baby right now but want to keep the option open for later, fertility preservation can save your healthiest eggs for later when you need them. 

The Fertility Center of Orlando offers egg harvesting and freezing along with a variety of other procedures to help you have a child on your own time and in your own way.

When would I need fertility preservation?

There are a number of different reasons that women might opt for fertility preservation. These include:

Age

You produce the best quality and quantity of eggs before the age of 30. From 30-35, quality and quantity decline, and then after 35, that decline sharply steepens. Because of this, it's generally best to freeze your eggs as early as possible. But, you can still freeze your eggs later. It may, however, take two or more cycles to get enough mature eggs. 

Medical reasons

There are a variety of medical reasons that may lead you to choose fertility preservation, such as planned cancer treatment, ovary removal surgery, or gender transition. Or, you may have a chronic condition like endometriosis that doesn't respond to laparoscopy. 

Fertility preservation isn't limited to women. Men may opt to freeze and bank their sperm to ensure that they have the option to father a child later. 

What is the fertility preservation process like?

The process starts with ovary-stimulating drugs, which encourage you to make more eggs than normal. Then, after the egg retrieval process, the Fertility Center of Orlando team flash-freezes your eggs. 

If you'd prefer to freeze embryos, the embryology lab team fertilizes your eggs with either your partner's sperm or a chosen donor's sperm before freezing. Then, your eggs or embryos remain in a cryopreserved state until you're ready to become pregnant. 

Your eggs or embryos are safe at the Fertility Center of Orlando. Whenever you're ready to get pregnant, reach out to Dr. McNichol to discuss the process in detail. He offers a wide range of assisted reproductive technology services to help you get the best results with your embryo transfer. 

For fertility preservation assistance from a caring and committed team, call the Fertility Center of Orlando, or click the online appointment maker.