Egg Freezing: What is the right age for egg freezing and why is it becoming more popular? Know everything from the doctor...

What is Egg Freezing: During a recent interview, actress Priyanka Chopra revealed that when she was 30 years old, she had frozen her eggs by opting for the egg freezing technique. Through surrogacy, Priyanka has become the mother of a daughter only last year. Nowadays women do not want to plan to become a mother soon due to giving priority to their careers. In such a situation, many young women are considering it better to get egg-freezing done to focus on their careers after getting married. After all, what is egg freezing, why do people get egg freezing done, and what is the cost of getting it done in India, let us know here from Dr. Shobha Gupta, Medical Director of Mother's Lap IVF Center and IVF specialist.

What is egg freezing?
In this era of change, along with many things changing, people's thinking and priorities are also changing. This is the reason that earlier when girls used to give priority to their home, family, marriage, and children, today they have become very conscious about their careers. Today's kids believe that they will not get married until they are well settled and find the right life partner. In such a situation, its effect is also visible on fertility. According to science, with increasing age, the fertility of women starts decreasing. Keeping this in mind, science has made a lot of progress. Egg freezing is a process in which the fertility of women is preserved so that women can increase their families by becoming mothers in the future.

What is the process of egg freezing?
In the process of egg freezing, the eggs of women are collected and frozen. Then later they are normalized and used in fertility treatment. With increasing age, the fertility of women decreases. Egg freezing preserves healthy eggs for women. By doing this their biological motion is interrupted and later they are used for reproduction. Egg freezing is a boon for women who aspire to become mothers at an older age.

Egg freezing is a way to preserve the fertility of women. In egg freezing, mature eggs are removed from the ovaries and frozen at zero temperature in the lab. When a woman needs these eggs, they are mixed with sperm and transferred to the uterus. Egg freezing is medically called cryopreservation.

Why do people do egg freezing?
Right from the time of birth, a girl has eggs in her womb, through which she grows up to become a mother. As the age increases, the number of these eggs starts decreasing. This reason can cause infertility in a woman, but due to egg freezing, now a mother can be made at any age. Now through the egg-freezing process, a woman can freeze her eggs and use them in the future to become a mother. In this process, doctors or experts take out the strongest or most mature eggs from the woman's womb and freeze them. Then when needed, they are mixed with sperm in the laboratory and inserted into the woman's womb.

Awareness about egg freezing is necessary
There is still not much awareness about egg freezing in India. However, many celebrities have done egg freezes, such as former Miss World Diana Hayden, TV actress Mona Singh, actress Kajol's sister Tanisha Mukherjee, and Priyanka Chopra. When she talks about her egg-freezing journey in an interview, it sparks discussion on this topic. Real life stories like these encourage people to learn more about egg freezing. In such a situation, its acceptance has also increased with time.