Women postpone getting pregnant for reasons such as completing their education, gaining economic freedom, providing appropriate economic conditions, wanting a suitable partner, and not being ready for a second pregnancy.
While the highest chance of getting pregnant is around the age of 25, this chance is 30. It gradually decreases towards the age of 10 and decreases very clearly and significantly after the age of 35. While it decreases even more in the 40s, it becomes almost impossible to get pregnant at the age of 45. With age, the quality of the eggs decreases and chromosomally defective eggs are produced. When pregnant with these defective eggs, pregnancy results in miscarriage or babies born with disabilities.
In addition to the ovarian reserve naturally decreasing with age, the egg reserve in the ovaries of young women may decrease or their ovarian tissues may be damaged due to some medical reasons. These are conditions such as a family history of early menopause (in mother and sister), familial breast cancer history, presence of endometriosis, some genetic diseases: Turner Syndrome, Fragile-X syndrome, Muscular dystrophy, BRCA-1 carrier, smoking, chemotherapy, radiotherapy. Although the number of eggs of these women is low, their eggs are of high quality because they are young. When these eggs are frozen and stored, even if the woman gets older, the chances of getting pregnant and resulting in healthy babies are higher in in vitro fertilization treatments when the eggs are thawed because the eggs are young.
Since the age of the woman and her eggs is important in having a healthy baby, cancer treatments Apart from this, I recommend that women do not postpone freezing their eggs until they are older.
While previously only patients who would undergo cancer treatments could have their eggs fertilized, the Ministry of Health issued a regulation in 2014 to ensure that the ovarian tissue and eggs of women with low egg reserves, regardless of whether they are married or single, can be frozen and stored. made. According to this regulation, before treatments that damage ovarian cells such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, before surgeries that will cause loss of reproductive functions (operations such as removal of the ovaries), or before women with low ovarian reserve who have not yet given birth or who have a family history. It is possible to fill the ovarian tissue and eggs in women if the history of early menopause is documented by a medical board report consisting of three specialist physicians...
How is Egg Freezing Procedure Done?
Egg developer on the 2nd day of menstruation. Medications are started, and at the end of this process, which takes about 10 - 12 days, the eggs are collected with vaginal ultrasound, frozen in the laboratory with the rapid freezing method called vitrification, and can be stored in liquid nitrogen tanks at -196 degrees for up to 5 years. Longer-term storage is possible with the approval of the Ministry. When pregnancy is desired, these eggs are thawed and in vitro fertilization procedures are performed.
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