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If you're not a woman of child-bearing age, you may never have heard of egg freezing.
But this form of in vitro fertilization has gained traction as its success rate has improved.
It was in 1978 when the first "test tube" baby was born in England. There, doctors fertilized an egg with sperm in a petri dish, then implanted the resulting embryo into the womb. Since then, hundreds of thousands of women have conceived using this method. In 2006, more than 54,000 IVF babies were born in the United States.
IVF using frozen eggs is newer. In the past decade, as many as 500 babies worldwide have been born from embroys that originated from a thawed-out egg. The first report of such a baby was in 1986. In 2007, the United States recorded its first baby born using both frozen egg and frozen sperm.
Egg freezing appeals to several groups of people, including young cancer patients facing life-saving but fertility-damaging treatments and women who want to extend the window of opportunity to have children because they don't yet have a...
But this form of in vitro fertilization has gained traction as its success rate has improved.
It was in 1978 when the first "test tube" baby was born in England. There, doctors fertilized an egg with sperm in a petri dish, then implanted the resulting embryo into the womb. Since then, hundreds of thousands of women have conceived using this method. In 2006, more than 54,000 IVF babies were born in the United States.
IVF using frozen eggs is newer. In the past decade, as many as 500 babies worldwide have been born from embroys that originated from a thawed-out egg. The first report of such a baby was in 1986. In 2007, the United States recorded its first baby born using both frozen egg and frozen sperm.
Egg freezing appeals to several groups of people, including young cancer patients facing life-saving but fertility-damaging treatments and women who want to extend the window of opportunity to have children because they don't yet have a...