Women choose the "frozen" children

Despite the warnings of doctors about the risks of late pregnancy, becoming increasingly clear that the number of women lay their motherhood "for later", is growing. In this connection, in Europe and especially in the US today inflames boom cryopreservation of oocytes. In England, doctors even made an appeal to go through the procedure of freezing for women over age 30 who are not going to give birth soon.

Appeal of British doctors addressed, first of all, ladies, busy with his career: that business women (and not only a very successful businesswoman, but also those women who are not even making a brilliant career still prefer to work and earn) constitute the lion's share of those who want to give birth, when the horizon is looming fifth decade. They, as well as the fact the fairer sex, which lay childbirth for other reasons, gynecologists are advised to stock up in advance "quality, young" egg.

"Pregnancy after 40 years can have complications due to age of the mother, because the older a woman is, the greater the risk of genetic abnormalities in the child, such as Down syndrome," - leads their arguments specialists.

The world's first baby of frozen egg (His mother exposed her cell deep-frozen, and later passed in vitro fertilization) was born relatively recently - in 2010, although the idea of ​​frozen germ cells appeared in the science much earlier - in the 80 years, scientists have learned not only to extract and fertilize the egg, and frozen embryos to store them indefinitely. However, successful fertilization was possible only in the case of frozen male cells - in women after the cryonics procedures took place at the level of chromosome breakage. Nowadays, experts argue that the level of the gynecological sector has grown incredibly, and women have absolutely nothing to fear - there are no obstacles to conceive as a result of cold preservation arises.

"The procedure of egg freezing offers women an excellent choice. It is known that the female body can produce a limited number of eggs and their reserves with time running out. If a woman wants for some reason to delay pregnancy, she may like to pause her biological clock by freezing their own sex cells, "- said the representative of the Center for artificial insemination of Southern California.

Other indications for cryopreservation of germ cells:

- Men whose sperm is produced in small quantities;

- People with cancer before chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, which lead to loss of reproductive function.

BTW

Some doctors believe that frozen egg   It can be useful and ordinary healthy women under the age of 35 years, since it is known that even in the body of women only 35-40% of eggs are completely ready to fertilize and do not have chromosomal defects.

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