Thinking about egg freezing in your 30s
A candid framing of the costs, the realistic outcomes, and how to decide whether one cycle is enough.
Most patients who consider egg freezing in their 30s are weighing the cost against an outcome that is, by definition, decades away and uncertain. The honest framing is that egg freezing buys you optionality, not certainty.
Age at freezing is the single biggest predictor of later live-birth success per egg. A round of freezing at 32 is meaningfully different from a round at 38, even with the same number of eggs banked.
We give every patient an age-banded estimate of how many mature eggs we would expect them to bank in one cycle, and how many they would likely want to bank for a reasonable later live-birth chance. Sometimes one cycle is enough; sometimes two is wiser. We will tell you the difference, with the actual numbers, before you decide.