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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a little confused as to why everyone is characterizing this article as representing an indictment against egg freezing. Of course, as any good freezer (including myself) knows, frozen eggs are certainly no guarantee. But if you read the article, you notice that TWO of the women mentioned, who both froze  on the later side (37 and 39) wound up with babies (one with twins and the other a healthy baby and "tons of eggs" left over). Another woman may have very well had success if she had traveled to her clinic for fertilization and transfer instead of shipping them to her new city. And the focus of the article, Ms. Adams, was 39 - past the age REs recommend to freeze (better to freeze embryos then) - might have had a different results if she had frozen multiple rounds. We also don't know what method was used - was it slow freeze or was it vitrification? The odds are actually incredibly good for vitrified eggs - a clinic in NYC (Extend Fertility) represents a 90%+ thaw rate. For younger women (ideally no older than early to perhaps mid-30s) who are not ready to be single mothers and haven't met their life partners, this is a better option than doing nothing at all and feeling panic every day at their waning fertility. Of course, the price point puts it out of reach for many women, but I'm hopeful for a day when insurance covers all or at least part of the cost, or where increased demand leads to prices falling considerably. Make no mistake, the egg freezing landscape has changed dramatically in the last five years. The real test will come in the next 5-10 years, when the first batch of freezers with vitrified eggs start coming back for their eggs. [/quote]

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