Egg Freezing in Gurgaon

• TheFertilife offers egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) in Gurgaon under the direct care of Dr. Anshika Lekhi. Egg freezing keeps eggs at their current quality. They are frozen and stored for later use. This may be done for personal or career reasons. It may also be done before a medical treatment that can affect fertility.

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"The conversation I have most often isn't about the procedure itself — it's about realistic numbers. How many eggs you're likely to retrieve at your age, and what that actually means for your future odds. Egg freezing is a genuinely useful option, but it works best when a woman goes into it with accurate expectations, not a vague sense of insurance." — Dr. Anshika Lekhi

What Is Egg Freezing and How Does It Work?

Egg freezing has a few steps.

• The ovaries are stimulated to produce several mature eggs in one cycle. The eggs are then retrieved. Retrieval is a minor outpatient procedure.
• The eggs are frozen using vitrification. Vitrification is a rapid-freezing method. It is used because slower methods can damage the egg.
• The eggs are stored until needed. When needed, the eggs are thawed. Then they are fertilised. This is usually done with ICSI. The resulting embryo is transferred as part of an IVF cycle.

Who Should Consider Egg Freezing?

Elective (social) reasons may include:

• wanting to delay children for career, education, or personal timing
• not having a partner yet, while wanting to keep the option of a biological child later

Medical reasons may include:

• Before chemotherapy, radiation, or other treatments that may affect ovarian function
• A diagnosis linked to earlier-than-average fertility decline, such as certain autoimmune conditions or a family history of early menopause
• Before surgery that could affect the ovaries, such as for severe endometriosis

Either way, ovarian reserve testing before starting is usually advised. This means AMH and antral follicle count. It helps set realistic expectations about how many eggs a cycle may yield. This is covered on our fertility tests page.

Egg Freezing Success Rates: What the Evidence Shows

Success depends mostly on age at the time of freezing. The number of mature eggs frozen also matters.

A widely used counseling model gives some figures. These are for a woman who freezes 20 mature eggs.

• At age 34, the chance of at least one live birth is around 90%.
• At age 37, it is around 75%.
• At age 42, it is around 37%.

The same number of eggs may give a very different outcome at a different age. Outcomes are usually strongest before age 35. They drop more steeply after 38. This is mostly egg quality, not just quantity, declining with age.

A few honest caveats are worth knowing.

• Egg survival after thawing is usually 80 to 90%.
• Not every thawed egg fertilises.
• Not every fertilised egg develops into a usable embryo.
• Many women who freeze eggs never return to use them. This is what the published studies show.

None of this means egg freezing isn't worthwhile. It means the number of eggs frozen, and the age at freezing, matter more than any single headline success rate.