Freezing your ovaries now can stop fertility problems later on
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Women, as young as 19, have been urged to consider freezing their ovaries to improve their chances of giving birth in later life
The fertility expert, Dr Sherman Silber, claims that freezing your ovaries could enable about 60,000 eggs to be captured, whilst if you just freeze your eggs, which is what is currently offered to women in Britain, then only five to ten eggs are caught.
This comes after more women are putting off marriage and children until much later in their lives but are then finding it much harder to conceive.
Dr Mike Smith, from fertility brand First Response, said, ‘It is no secret that a woman’s chances of getting pregnant decrease as she gets older, in some cases this decline can begin around the age of 24.’
Dr Silber explained that the process would enable a woman, who froze her ovaries at 19, to still have a 19 year old ovary when she was 40 years old, which would mean that she was more likely to conceive.
However, Tony Rutherford, chairman of the British Fertility Society, has warned that more research needs to be done before there is a widespread banking of ovarian tissue,
Apart from freezing your ovaries, there are other ways that you can improve your fertility.
Yvonne Bishop Weston, nutritionist from Foods for Life, said, ‘What we really need to consider is protecting our health, including the health of our eggs, from a young age as we can not just expect our bodies to be well when we want to have children.’
By Lauren King
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