Postponing the date of maternity will help the ovarian freezing bank
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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English ladies will soon be able to delay motherhood, using for this purpose the newest successful method - freezing part of the ovaries. This opportunity will be provided by the first special hospital, which will be opened in the country for the foreseeable future.
Today, the procedure is available only in several states, such as the United States, Denmark and Belgium. It allows women aged 20 to 30 years to pass into the "bank of the ovaries" part of the tissues of their glands, which at this time are more productive. Over time, when a woman decides that she is ready to conceive a baby, the tissues will be implanted back.
This service will cost between 16 thousand pounds and is expected to become available within 6 months.
At the moment, 19 babies were born this way around the world by this method. Experts believe that this method will later spread, as it is more effective, in comparison with freezing of eggs and even IVF.
To conserve part of the ovary, a woman will need to remove about a third of the organ. The extracted tissues are stored in liquid nitrogen at a temperature of -190 C. However, for every year of thinking, the expectant mother will need to pay 100 pounds each.
When a woman is finally ready to have children, the tissues are implanted back and after a few months egg production begins. Doing this procedure can give a woman thousands of eggs in return for twelve cases of freezing the egg.
Until now, this method was used, as a rule, by women with cancer, who want to conserve healthy ovarian tissue after a course of chemotherapy treatment. However, English doctors expect to offer the newest procedure to other women who are not hurrying to become mothers not because of health problems, but for some other secondary reasons.
Some experts believe that in the absence of a special need, the procedure should not be used. The presence of remote tissues at an early age can exacerbate the chances of the fairer sex to have a baby.
"This can lead to the formation of scars or a pelvic defect that can make pregnancy difficult by natural means," says the doctor Gillian Lockwood
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