Mangaluru / Bengaluru: A 31-year professional IT recently chose to freeze eggs.
He did not want to get married in the near future as his current focus on his career.
He also has type 1 diabetes from a young age.
He chose for frozen eggs so that when he married later, he would have the choice to get pregnant.
This is the Hun Story that found that marriage and by very loud choices.
If they choose to focus on their careers, there are stabs of child guilt.
If they choose a baby, often there is hatred about missed opportunities.
In other cases, 33-yeard olds have just divorced women, during his marriage, undergoing abortion as husbands are not ready for children.
After they separated, he was interested in having a baby and chose to freeze the eggs.
He planned to get pregnant after he was ready or after he remarried.
“The number of women choosing for egg freezing has definitely increased and more than anything, the level of consciousness has risen.
People from various layers of society, who have chosen for this coming out and talk about it.
The number of women asked about freezing the egg cells had risen in the past five years.
At the average, we get 15-20 cases per year.
People ask about procedures, not only by traditional clinic visits, but also through online consultations, or social media.
Every time we host Facebook Live, for example, questions continue to emerge regularly about freezing eggs, “said Dr.
P Priyanka Reddy, Infertility Specialist Consultant, Hospital, Indiranagar, Bengaluru.
The reasons for freezing can be clinical or social, said Dr Aviva Pinto Rodrigues, fertility consultant, Nova IVF fertility, Basaveshwara Nagar, Bengaluru.
“It depends on people to people.
There is clinical egg freezing, where women who suffer from serious health conditions such as cancer choose to freeze their eggs as care such as chemotherapy will affect their fertility.
In that case, women can explore the freezing of eggs as an option.
Then there is a social freezing of eggs, where OPTS is a healthy woman to freeze her eggs because of its own choice.
Many desires to focus on education growth and careers before they take mother’s responsibility.
For women like, eggs broke the frightening freezing of biological hours of dilemma, “he said.
The average age of women chose to freeze the eggs now 30-35 years, compared to five years ago when used to be around 38-40 years.
The cost is around Rs 1 lakh and eggs can be maintained for around 10 years, or for a long time if needed.
For example, if a woman freezes her eggs at the end of a teenager or early twenties due to health conditions such as cancer or a history of Earl y menopause in the family, it will need more time before he decides to get pregnant, eggs can be maintained for again, said Dr.
Priyanka.
“This is a time sensitive process.
The quality and quantity of eggs drain as an old woman grows.
It is recommended for women to plan their egg freezing process with their early thirties.
Also, it is important to go with a misunderstanding that this is a definite way-fire o f to ensure eternal fertility.
There is no t all frozen eggs will be able when they are finally used.
As a fertility of a woman decreasing with age, there may be complications when frozen eggs are used, “Dr Aviva said on the challenge.