In 2015, Xu Jinglei publicly stated that she had frozen 9 eggs abroad in “Lu Yu Da Ca Day Trip”. She said, “This is the only regret medicine in the world. It doesn’t matter if you take it, but it is always right to be prepared.”
This may be the first choice for most women in China to understand the frozen egg. Even in the media’s overwhelming reports, not everyone can notice the high cost of hundreds of thousands of frozen eggs, but almost everyone knows that frozen eggs have become a potential choice for every woman.
Today, more and more people understand frozen eggs. The first unmarried frozen egg party in China has shown us the collision between technological progress and the law. Lin Zhiling’s previous experience with frozen eggs allowed us to start to understand frozen eggs. Problems with egg success rate.
In fact, there are many more facts about the high cost of frozen eggs and the success rate of frozen eggs that need to be known to the public. Vice editor Katie MacBride She is very opposed to describing frozen eggs as a “future insurance”, she personally thinks it is more like an “expensive lottery”.
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It’s only been seven years since the frozen eggs came out of the laboratory and became a mature tool for preserving fertility. In 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine stopped listing frozen eggs as an “experimental” process, which was allowed to be “commercially available,” allowing fertility institutions to market the new technology more aggressively.
Frozen eggs are well known to the public, but in fact, it is inseparable from the participation of major Internet companies. In 2014, Facebook and Apple announced that their employees will receive egg freezing insurance for non-medical purposes, which is a wider radiation range. The company’s corporate welfare at that time received a lot of media coverage.
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In the same year, two articles, “Frozen Eggs, Emancipation,” published by Bloomberg Business Week, and “Frozen Eggs Paid by the Company will be the largest equalizer for women” published by Time magazine Linked with frozen eggs. Although a co-founder of the Southern California Reproductive Center later found in a 2018 study that the main reason people decided to freeze eggs was the lack of a partner.
But no matter what the reason, frozen eggs have become the fastest growing service in the reproductive industry. More and more people choose to use it to buy a “ferry ticket” to become a mother in the future.
But do n’t worry, please do n’t be so optimistic about the frozen egg, because it may cost more than we think, and the success rate is lower than we think.
According to data provided by Fertility IQ, the online fertility information center, the medications and storage equipment required to store eggs cost between $ 15,000 and $ 20,000. Often, people need to freeze multiple eggs to ensure a successful pregnancy after many years. The optimal age for frozen eggs is 25-35 years. The older the frozen eggs, the lower the probability of a healthy baby. Women under 35 are best able to freeze 15-20 eggs, and women 35-40 are best able to freeze 20-30 eggs. Older women pay more for frozen eggs.
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Analysis of actress Lin Zhiling’s frozen eggs, although she frozen 9 eggs at the age of 40. But age will affect the PGS gene screening pass rate, and the pass rate for a 40-year-old woman is around 24%, plus the possible loss of eggs when the embryo is thawed. In this case, whether frozen eggs can help women succeed as mothers depends on chance.
Hundreds of thousands of frozen eggs are not all. If the patient wants to use the eggs through in vitro fertilization, they will need to pay an additional $ 22,000.
High prices, low success rates, and the negative impact of egg retrieval on women may all make it difficult for every woman who wants to freeze eggs.
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In order to cope with the hard defects of frozen eggs, more and more medical institutions have begun to vigorously promote the advantages of frozen eggs.
Videos shared by YouTuber Aimee Eyvazzadeh’s frozen egg experience, 100% IVF success rate and other videos received nearly 100,000 views. The startup “fertility bus” will provide users with free anti-Mullerian hormones Tested, this hormone can help a person assess the egg storage of the ovaries. With the results, the “fertility bus” will lead you to their parent company Kindbody, a fertility hospital whose main business is frozen eggs.
The hospitals that provide frozen egg services are all in poles.They tried to dilute the disadvantages of frozen eggs. They were trying to persuade users to buy a “fertility insurance”, but they did their best to hide the pits and additional conditions in “insurance”.
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A 2018 study by the British Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority found that frozen eggs from users only had a live birth rate of 18% per cycle.
In 2015, a study mentioned in the Canadian Society of Fertility and Men’s Science report showed that the success rate of pregnancy after freezing eggs among people aged 35 and under was between 15% and 61%. For people over 35, the ratio is between 5% and 30%.
Frozen eggs are certainly a new option for women, but this is not a 100% successful option. It is not insurance or regret medicine, and the probability of its failure is still high. With all this in mind, women may be able to make the decision that suits them best.
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