Egg Freezing at Southwest Fertility Center

Southwest Fertility Center is happy to announce our affiliation with the Frozen Egg Bank Network. While Southwest Fertility Center has been freezing sperm and embryos for over 20 years with a success rate higher than the national average, egg freezing is a new and emerging technology. Over the last 10 years the process of freezing eggs has emerged as a viable option to freezing embryos. We are proud to say that we are using the LANDA Freezing Technology.

With careful patient screening, LANDA Freezing Technology has consistently yielded a 91% egg survival rate following the thawing process with an 85% fertilization rate.

Southwest Fertility Center is thrilled to offer this advanced technology to our patients. We feel this will be a viable option to our IVF patients as opposed to freezing embryos, as well as for those women who want to postpone childbearing until later in life. With this technology we are participating in the Frozen Egg Bank so that couples choosing to use frozen eggs can proceed with their cycle immediately.

Who should freeze their eggs?

Any woman who is less than 37 years old and has a normal FSH blood test may be a candidate for egg freezing. Women may wish to freeze their eggs for many reasons.

  • Couples who wish to freeze eggs rather than embryos for religious and/or ethical reasons.
  • Women who are diagnosed with cancer and wish to have the option of having children in the future. This needs to be done before chemotherapy or radiation treatments begin.
  • Women who want to delay child bearing for career or personal reasons.
  • Women who wish to delay childbearing until they meet a suitable partner.
  • Women wishing to donate eggs for our Frozen Egg Bank Program.

Don't let your biological clock stop your chances for a family

Egg freezing is a way to keep the ravages of time from preventing you from having a biological child.

Fact: Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have.

Fact: A woman’s peak fertility is between the ages of 18 and 25.

Fact: By the age of 40 the average fertility rate is 15% of that of a woman at age 25.

Fact: The risk for having a baby born with a chromosomal abnormality at age 40 is 1/66 compared to 1/476 at age 25.

Fact: As a woman ages the number of her eggs diminish and their quality deteriorates. Because of the reduced number of eggs there is a decreased chance for pregnancy and with their sub-optimal quality, there is a higher incidence of abnormal embryos resulting in more miscarriages.

Preserving oocytes while they are still healthy is a proactive step you can take to protect your fertility.

For these reasons and more, freezing your eggs can be a viable option to prolong the time frame in which you are able to have a baby.