Egg freezing

I've just been reading yet another feature - this time from a local newspaper in the States - about egg freezing, apparently dubbed as the most significant development for women since the advent of the pill...

This piece was particularly sad as it quoted a woman who had spent twelve thousand dollars freezing her eggs, saying how lucky she felt that she could afford to do it. The fact that she was already in her early forties didn't seem to have been addressed at all.

Egg freezing is a fantastic step forward and will undoubtedly benefit many women, but it is vital that people understand that it cannot offer any guarantees, and that their chances of success are hugely diminished if they freeze their eggs when they are older. I fear that many women are spending large sums imagining that they are somehow insuring themselves against a childless future, when in fact the realistic chances of having a baby using their frozen eggs may be extremely low.