Women who want kids ‘should freeze eggs before they hit 30’ to boost chances of IVF success
Expert advises young women to 'seriously consider' freezing their eggs as an insurance policy
WOMEN should freeze their eggs by the age of 30 if they plan to have children in later life, says a top fertility expert.
He said they should “seriously consider” the procedure as egg quality drops when women reach their mid-30s.
Knowing a healthy egg is frozen also makes the search for a partner “less desperate”, reckons Dr Richard Paulson.
The president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine said: “The biological clock takes a sudden turn downwards at the age of 35. People need to work backwards.”
He urged women planning late births to “seriously consider some type of fertility preservation”.
Dr Paulson said: “You should be done having babies by the age of 35.”
Today the society’s annual conference will hear women are starting to freeze eggs at a younger age. A study shows a quarter said egg freezing gave them more time to find a partner.
More than half said it “reduced biological clock pressure”.
A quarter who froze their eggs last year were under 35, compared to just one in eight in 2012.
Around 800 Brits pay up to £5,000 to freeze their eggs each year.
But IVF success rates are only around 14 per cent, compared to 27 per cent for fresh eggs.
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WOMEN in jobs such as banking and finance are 60 per cent less likely to conceive using IVF, research suggests.
US experts claim higher stress levels may be to blame.
Teachers are six times more likely to fall pregnant than women doing other jobs which bring in similar salaries, the study of 1,123 people found.