Motherhood in their 20s or 30s is not every woman’s idea of ​​life. Some women also want to build their careers first, or some like to wait until they find the right man.

And this was the idea of ​​the Bollywood star, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who revealed in a podcast interview how she followed the advice of her mother, Dr. Madhu Chopra, and frozen her eggs at the age of thirty, until she married American actor Nick Jonas, and gave birth to her last year, when she was thirty-nine years old. Their first child, Mary Malletti, was born through a surrogacy process.

Priyanka said, in the interview, that she felt free, when she underwent an egg-freezing operation in her early thirties, as she was able to fight for her dream and ambition, and to reach the position she wanted to achieve in her career, until she met the person she wanted to have children with.

The star Priyanka Chopra was not the only one who talked about freezing eggs recently, as there are many Western stars, and Arabs as well, who stormed this topic.

We reveal more about the egg freezing process.

What is egg freezing?

Freezing eggs basically means removing the egg from the ovary and storing it for future use. The ovary retains a number of eggs in a woman’s body that depletes over time. When a woman begins to age, depletion of the egg leads to infertility, or the inability to conceive with her eggs, because they are depleted. With the passage of time.

Therefore, many women use this concept to store eggs in their thirties, so that they can use them later in life, whenever they want to conceive before a certain time of menopause.

How are eggs frozen?

There are a set of steps through which eggs are frozen:

1 . First: hormonal injections:

A woman’s ovary normally releases one egg each month to fertilize sperm, so to stimulate a handful of eggs to mature at the same time, injections of hormones are given for 10 days before the eggs are removed under anesthesia.

These injections are nothing more than doses of hormones that stimulate the ovaries to create more eggs, such as: follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and the chance of conceiving later is better as the number of eggs increases.

2 . Second: oocyte collection:

While the patient receives the injections for 10 to 12 days, three to four ultrasounds are performed. On the day of the procedure, after spending six to eight hours in the hospital to collect the eggs, the patient can go home. The extraction process does not involve any surgery or incisions, as the treatment is performed under anesthesia through the vagina, without leaving any scars, and the egg retrieval process takes 20 to 30 minutes.

3 . Third: Egg Freezing:

It is recommended to freeze at least 8 to 10 eggs for women between the ages of 30 and 35, while 10 to 15 eggs must be frozen if eggs are frozen after the age of 35, in order to ensure future fertility.

Is egg freezing similar to IVF?

Egg freezing is somewhat similar to IVF egg stimulation. Injections are given to make a woman ovulate to produce a large number of eggs. These eggs are then physically removed from the body through transvaginal ultrasound, under a light anaesthetic.

the procedure is short; It is usually very safe, and these eggs can then be stored if a woman wants to become pregnant in her late 30s or early 40s.