【Give Yourself Fertility Insurance and Freeze the Chance for Future Happiness】
Preparation: Things to Consider Before Egg Freezing
In recent years, women have been rising in the workplace.
While choosing to focus on career development, many women also postpone plans for marriage and having children.
However, reproductive age cannot be maintained through care and maintenance the way appearance can.
If you are not careful, you may miss the best timing for fertility.
Fortunately, thanks to advances in medical technology, whether due to illness or the desire to extend reproductive years, egg freezing can help preserve the youth of your eggs and prevent a long and difficult journey of trying to conceive in the future.
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As Late Marriage and Late Childbearing Become More Common, Egg Freezing Helps Preserve Fertility
In the past, egg freezing was mostly used for patients with cancer or those at risk of losing ovarian function due to illness.
Because chemotherapy or surgery may affect egg quality, some women chose to freeze their eggs in advance.
Today, however, many women are considering egg freezing because of late marriage or different life plans.
But can egg freezing really be something you decide to do immediately once you feel interested?
This is what many women who are approaching the edge of their reproductive age most want to know.
Dr. Hui-Po Li, director of Yun-I Fertility Center, has years of clinical case experience.
For those standing at the crossroads of whether or not to freeze their eggs, feeling uncertain and hesitant, Dr. Li provides the most professional and comprehensive explanation.
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Dr. Hui-Po Li
Current position: Director of Yun-I Fertility Center
Education and experience:
Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Head of the Fertility Center at Taipei Chung Shan Hospital
Research Fellow in Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at the University of California, Irvine, UCI
Obstetrician and Gynecologist at Johannesburg General Hospital
School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center
Four Major Groups Are Recommended to Prioritize Fertility Preservation
Egg freezing can help preserve the youth of your eggs and maintain fertility for women who are busy or facing disease-related concerns.
The following four groups are advised to plan early and preserve a chance for future fertility.
(1) Women aged 30 and above who are considering delaying childbirth
(2) Women who must undergo ovarian removal due to disease
(3) Women before receiving cancer chemotherapy or radiation therapy
(4) Women with a family history of premature ovarian insufficiency
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Blood Tests to Evaluate Ovarian Function
“Can I freeze my eggs?”
Dr. Hui-Po Li, director of Yun-I Fertility Center, recommends that women considering egg freezing can use two blood tests for evaluation:
Anti-Müllerian hormone, AMH, to understand the ovarian egg reserve.
Follicle-stimulating hormone, FSH, to evaluate the function of the hormonal system.
Based on these results, further discussion can determine whether egg freezing treatment is suitable.
AMH is an indicator of egg reserve.
The higher the measured value, the more sufficient the egg reserve, the greater the number of eggs that may be retrieved, and the higher the future pregnancy success rate may be.
FSH can help evaluate follicle growth and ovulation function.
Through these two blood tests, it is also possible to check whether there are signs of premature ovarian insufficiency.
In addition, on the third day of the menstrual period, ultrasound can be used to check the number of antral follicles in the ovaries.
This can serve as a reference for estimating the number of eggs that may be retrieved.
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Seize the Best Golden Period for Egg Freezing
The success rate of egg freezing is closely related to both age at the time of freezing and the number of eggs frozen.
Women who have plans for future pregnancy should seize the best golden period for egg freezing, preserving high-quality eggs in advance to maintain the opportunity to have children in the future.
Dr. Hui-Po Li states that the ideal age for egg freezing is between 30 and 38.
However, before age 35, which is considered a suitable age for marriage and childbirth, people are still encouraged to get married and have children if possible.
Between the ages of 35 and 38, if you have not yet found a suitable partner, you should seriously consider egg freezing, but it is best not to wait until after age 40.
Ovarian function declines with age.
After age 40, both the number and quality of eggs that can be retrieved are usually less ideal. More eggs need to be frozen, more egg retrieval procedures may be required, and the live birth rate after thawing is also lower.
This not only increases the physical burden, but also leads to higher costs.
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Stop, Look, and Listen Before Egg Freezing
Dr. Hui-Po Li also reminds everyone that egg freezing only preserves the opportunity for future fertility.
When using thawed eggs to have a child, women of advanced maternal age still need to consider that pregnancy and delivery may involve more complications.
These may include fetal chromosomal abnormalities, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and other risks, which are much higher than those in younger pregnant women.
You also need to consider whether your physical condition can handle pregnancy, as well as future childcare responsibilities.
Therefore, if you choose egg freezing, it is best to plan early and ideally have plans to become pregnant and have children within ten years.
This is a happier win-win choice for both yourself and your future child.
There is one more important point to think through clearly.
After your eggs are frozen, if you later want to thaw them for pregnancy and childbirth, you must have a legal marital status in order to use them.
At present, Taiwanese law does not allow surrogacy, so the person who freezes the eggs and the person who carries the pregnancy must be the same person.
These are all issues that must be carefully considered before egg freezing.
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Choose a Qualified and High-Quality Fertility Center
Dr. Hui-Po Li, director of Yun-I Fertility Center, reminds women who are interested in egg freezing that they can first visit the Health Promotion Administration website under the Ministry of Health and Welfare to check the list of qualified fertility centers.
Before egg freezing, proper consultation and testing should be completed.
It is also important to carefully confirm the medical equipment and whether the procedure is assisted by qualified physicians.
Only then can egg freezing be truly successful and help preserve a chance for future fertility.
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Empathy from the Heart
Through many years of clinical cases, Dr. Hui-Po Li has deeply understood the difficulties that couples with infertility face in their journey to have children.
To provide a more comfortable and advanced environment, he specially established the brand-new Yun-I Fertility Center in the spring of 2020.
He invested more than 30 years of experience into staff training, equipment upgrades, technical advancement, and strengthening the medical team.
Yun-I’s laboratory has an ultra-high ISO 3 cleanroom standard and is equipped with advanced equipment and technologies, including time-lapse embryo incubators, microinjection, and laser-assisted hatching.
The embryology team has more than 20 years of experience in assisted reproduction and achieves very high embryo development and pregnancy rates.
Yun-I Fertility Center provides a spacious and comfortable medical environment, along with personalized treatment plans that value privacy.
Its one-stop service allows patients to avoid traveling back and forth between different locations for various tests and treatments, saving valuable time and reducing waiting.
Most importantly, the entire treatment process is managed and closely followed by the attending physician.
With every decision centered on patient rights and interests, Yun-I provides high-success-rate treatment plans and hopes to help more couples with infertility fulfill their dream of building a happy family.
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