Jean Smith

It's probably the best resource on the internet for comparing clinics.

Most of the clinics you'll find through this website, and indeed most of the clinics in the country, will cost between $15,000 and $22,000 per round of egg freezing.

If you're a California resident, check whether your insurance plan offers coverage for IVF.

You may be able to get them to pay for egg freezing, especially if you are already married.

If you're rich and money is no object, the best IVF doctor I know is probably Dr. Amy.

She's quite expensive compared to the average IVF doctor, somewhere between $25,000 and $40,000 per round with all expenses included, but she has produced some pretty outlierish results for a number of my friends and acquaintances.

One acquaintance of mine got 17 euploid embryos from a single egg retrieval which is one shy of the most productive IVF cycle I ever saw while at Genomic Prediction.

She seems to be particularly good for women with tricky infertility cases, though again this is based on a small sample size and there is no guarantee of outcomes.

Most women will need 1 to 3 rounds of egg retrieval to have a high chance of having all the children they want.

If you plan to do polygenic embryo selection, 2 to 5 is a better estimate.

If you want more precise numbers, use Heresite's calculator to estimate how many kids you could get from a given number of egg freezing cycles.

If you want to do polygenic embryo selection, aim to have enough eggs for greater than 2x the number of children you actually want.

If you're interested in freezing your eggs or you're interested in polygenic embryo selection, send me an email.

I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in this process and may be able to add you to some group chats with other women going through the process.

Subheading.

Risks of egg freezing.

Apart from the financial costs of egg freezing, there are some rare serious medical complications from the process and some common side effects from the process.

Most women experience some level of bloating, abdominal pain, and mood changes as a result of the medications used to stimulate egg production.

In about 0.35% of cycles between 2001 and 2011, these side effects were serious enough to lead to hospitalization.

The rate of hospitalizations has probably dropped by more than 50% since then.