With the changing times, many women have different views on having children. Some women believe that they are currently young and should have children earlier, which is beneficial for avoiding many harms. But there are also women who believe that they happen to have a successful career now, and if they have children, wouldn't it waste so many years of effort? So, there is the concept of frozen eggs. What does frozen eggs mean?
What does frozen egg mean
The so-called frozen eggs actually refer to the process of freezing the eggs on a woman's body when she is healthy, and then extracting them for artificial insemination when she wants to conceive. This can prevent the eggs from aging with the body. Before women retrieve eggs, they need to take ovulation inducing drugs to promote the early development of multiple follicles, and use puncture technology to release multiple eggs, so as to obtain multiple eggs at once for egg freezing.
How much does it cost to freeze eggs
In China, although there is a technology for freezing eggs with a price of about 10000 yuan, there are regulations on the management of assisted reproductive technology in China that only allow women who meet the requirements of in vitro fertilization surgery to temporarily freeze eggs, so most people cannot undergo egg freezing.
There is also a technology for freezing eggs abroad, which is even more expensive, around ten thousand US dollars. Therefore, even if you want to wait until the age when you want to have children before using frozen eggs for reproduction, you basically need to have a certain economic foundation.
How long can frozen eggs be stored for
Even with the technology of freezing eggs and a certain economic foundation, it is necessary to know the time for storing frozen eggs. In China, frozen eggs are generally stored for about one year.
In foreign countries, programmed freezing and ultra high speed vitrification freezing are also commonly used. Programmed freezing refers to the process of cooling and freezing eggs under specific settings of a programmable freezer, and finally storing them in liquid nitrogen. In contrast, ultra high speed vitrification freezing involves pre treating eggs in cryoprotectants and freezing them directly in liquid nitrogen at an extremely fast speed.
However, for embryos formed from frozen eggs, the probability of them actually growing into healthy children who can survive is low, and their safety cannot be evaluated. Therefore, one must be cautious when making this decision.
