Freezing eggs NATURALLY?

Hello,

I want to freeze my eggs...but without the hormones and medications. I found this site: http://newayfertility.com/fertility-services/natural-cycle-ivf/ .

Does anyone know anyone who has has either done natural IVF or froze their eggs naturally? Also, any recommendations?

Thank you.

Freezing eggs NATURALLY?

perfect you'll get more answers on this site. I never tried a natural IVF mine all medicated, how do you freeze eggs naturally?

Freezing eggs NATURALLY?

I have no experience with naturally maturing/harvesting the eggs. I'd think that you would need several cycles to get a decent amount of eggs since the typical person only matures 1, maybe 2 eggs a month naturally. Some places do offer low med cycles, which might be something to look into.

Re: Freezing eggs NATURALLY?

Interesting question. This is a new group...

I personally have no experience with natural IVF...

It sounds to me like you are looking for a sole harvest: i.e. use eggs later, when you are older.

Read the papers that are listed on the neway site. They are medical, but the intros are readable & one says what I would think would be the issue:
" the classical protocol of natural cycle IVF treatment is encumbered by a number of other problems, including an increased risk of a failure of oocyte retrieval during egg collection and an absence of an embryo for transfer." If you look it up, there is a study & review of literature article by Roesner published in Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics in 2013 that showed a very poor pregnancy rate with natural cycle IVF. I'd be concerned if you are going to spend cash on egg freezing as an "insurance" & risk lower success rates.

Personally, I had embryos stored for 5 years that were decent grade & one didn't make it through thaw & the other looked really horrible post thaw (in my limited opinion) & never implanted. Again, this was "old" slow freezing technology (it was what was used that that time). I had paid over $5k cash for those to be frozen & stored & I don't know how much for the implant that failed.

Unfortunately, I think IVF is a numbers game & the better your numbers, the better something will survive the chances of something not going at each step. That being said, you can make it with only 1 or 2 embryos... BUT chances are better with more.

The side effects of stimming were not horrible for me & I'd do it again.