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By Saghar Kasiri
Director of European Operations at Cryos International
Postponing pregnancy and motherhood can reduce your chances of a healthy pregnancy if you don't take advantage of your high-quality eggs when you are younger.
Cryopreservation, or egg freezing, can be beneficial for women who wish to preserve their fertility for the future. Thus, when a woman is of childbearing age (between 20 and 35 years old), it is the best time to freeze and store her eggs so that she can use them at the time she wants to conceive. Although eggs over the age of 35 can still be retrieved for freezing, however, both the quality and quantity of the eggs may decrease.
Egg cryopreservation involves the stages of egg retrieval and freezing for future use. At Cryos International's facility in Cyprus, egg cryopreservation is offered to women up to the age of 40 to help both women and couples prepare for the possibility of future pregnancies at a time that best suits their needs.
Notably, Cyprus is the only country in the world to provide a €2,000 sponsorship for egg cryopreservation for permanent residents of the country. The efforts made by the state to reduce under-birth rate are to be congratulated.
The cost of egg cryopreservation includes medical sessions with experienced gynaecologists, ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval and egg freezing. With the state subsidy, the actual cost for the initial evaluation and one cycle of egg cryopreservation, which includes storage for one year, is €1,000.
The Cryos team can also guide women undergoing egg cryopreservation in Cyprus on how to complete the necessary forms to receive the grant they are entitled to from the Ministry of Health under the Infertility Treatment Grant Scheme.
The pregnancy rates achieved using cryopreserved eggs depend on various factors such as your age at the time of cryopreservation. This is why Cryos suggests you take advantage of high quality eggs from your 20s to your mid-30s. The chance of a healthy pregnancy is statistically low if you are 40 or older.
Timely and correct information from gynecologists to their patients is of particular importance. Doctors should inform their patients early on about all the possibilities offered by egg cryopreservation.
It seems that there has started to be interest from Cypriot women, realizing the life circumstances such as the need to get ahead through a career or to look for the right partner. The message we need to get across to women is that the earlier they do this procedure, the better quality eggs they will freeze. For example, if a woman freezes her eggs at age 32 and uses them at age 40, her eggs will be the same quality as they were 8 years ago.
By cryopreserving eggs for future use, you can plan your family building at the most appropriate time for you. In other words, egg cryopreservation is an investment for your future
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