I froze my eggs at the age of 34 after researching and thinking about freezing them for a good six months.
I had reasons to freeze my eggs as I had been divorced for 2 years then and had not met anyone who I’d thought I’d like to have a family with. The fear of not ever being able to have a baby or a family of my own grew, so I decided to take control of my life and freeze my eggs as an insurance policy.
During my initial consultation I was worried about it affecting my future fertility, but my doctor reassured me it doesn’t and explained the process which was very thorough. I could understand exactly what was going to happen and how the procedure worked, I remember feeling excited when I left the clinic, almost empowered.
Before the treatment began, I took supplements to ensure I could get the best possible treatment, these included vitamin D, omega 3, Omega 1000.
The fertility drugs were somewhat unusual as I’d never had to inject myself before although after the first injection and help from one of the fertility nurses it was easy and took no less than 1 minute. I had to do this for around 11 days and had regular appointments to see how large the follicles had got before extraction of my eggs.
The day of the operation I felt absolutely fine, empowered and in control of my life until I got undressed and put my gown on. The fear washed over me as I was lying in a hospital bed, I’d never been put to sleep before, the thoughts that were going through my head were a little intense to say the least. I was lucky as I had this amazing nurse who connected with me and related my fears to my enjoyments (I think she actually said something about tequila) she held my hand when they put me to sleep and then the next thing I knew it was lights out and I was waking up to my doctor explaining they had extracted 10 eggs, although 1 died but 9 were mature.
I feel like I have 9 babies on ice, but I do understand it’s not as easy as that and that the chances of me having a baby with a frozen egg is just 24%. It is what it is, and I believe what will be will be, but I do feel like I have given myself an additional chance of being a mother one day.