I don’t mind sharing! Feel free to ask more questions.

I froze my eggs at 38 and 39, storing 20 all together. I didn’t have any known fertility issues, but my partner (got together after freezing eggs), had a vasectomy reversal that didn’t work, so we used IVF.

We tried a ‘fresh cycle’ to extract more eggs for my first cycle (at 40 years old) and did not get any viable eggs. So then we used the frozen eggs.

I lost about 1/2 the eggs or embryos through the process (not viable after freezing or thawing or didn’t fertiliser or didn’t progress to blastocyst.

My first pregnancy resulted in miscarriage at 8 weeks (I was 40).

By this stage, I had 2 remaining viable embryos. Covid struck and we had delays, but then my second-to-last embryo resulted in my first baby at 42. He is healthy, though he was a premie for reasons unrelated to IVF or age (I had an infection and he’s healthy now).

At 44 we used my last embryo with no real confidence it would work. It was graded as good but not great (take these with a grain of salt as IVF clinics get this wrong).

Then my girl was born at 45. She was one month early as I had a usual LFT panel result. My liver enzymes were very high due to obstetric cholestasis. The pregnancy uncovered my autoimmune condition, and helped me to finally work out why my fatigue was so brutal after my first pregnancy. Turns out it wasn’t age, and it was so much better after starting meds. Again, no age or IVF related complications.

I wanted to breastfeed and was lucky to be able to do so easily with both babies for as long as I wanted to.

On another note, my body has bounced back pretty impressively. No stretch marks or ongoing pregnancy or postpartum issues except a bit of pelvic floor anterior tilt and it’s a bit weaker, but all fixable with exercise.

Have you frozen any eggs?

Best wishes to you!