BlackOpsIIcel
> > > > FAT GIRLS REJECT ME! < < < <
★
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2017
- Posts
- 3,016
IVF clinics are 'selling false hope' by freezing eggs of women aged up to 48 - fertility watchdog issues warning over fashionable procedure as studies show chance of success for over 40s is 'very slim'
Fertility clinics have been accused of selling ‘false hope’ to women by allowing them to freeze their eggs up to the age of 48.
- Egg-freezing cycles have more than quadrupled during the last eight years
- New report reveals 46 per cent of women freezing their eggs have no partner
- Women are trying to get pregnant by using their frozen eggs up to age of 50
This is despite fewer than 5 per cent of women being able to have an IVF baby with their own eggs past the age of 44 – and the fertility regulator warning that women over 40 have a ‘very slim’ chance of falling pregnant after freezing their eggs.
But vast numbers of middle-aged women are still freezing their eggs, amid concerns the fashionable procedure is seen as a ‘back-up plan’.
Egg-freezing cycles have more than quadrupled since 2010, despite a price tag of up to £8,200. No more than 13 women froze their eggs in the year 2000, but clinics carried out 1,310 egg-freezing cycles in 2016.
Egg-freezing is sold as ‘fertility insurance’, which buys women more time to get ahead in their career or find the right partner before starting a family.
It allows women to freeze their eggs when they are younger and better quality, to give them a better chance of falling pregnant with those eggs at a later date.
The new report from fertility regulator the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) reveals that 46 per cent of women freezing their eggs are single and have no partner.
The regulator says women may have ‘unrealistically high expectations of success’, as women are now trying to get pregnant using their frozen eggs up to the age of 50.
Full article