Timing is everything. Especially when it comes to fertility. You know you want to have a baby, but the right time just isn’t right now.  But right now, you can make the decision to preserve your chance for future parenthood with oocyte cryopreservation, also known as egg freezing.  Women may choose egg freezing for a number of reasons:

• Before chemotherapy or radiation
• Employed in occupations that put fertility at risk
• Haven’t found the right partner yet
• Timing not right for parenthood now

The last two reasons are the most common. Fertility in the human female declines with age – the biological clock - that’s just a fact of life. But it doesn’t need to control your life. Let’s say that you’re an actress (not that big a stretch in Los Angeles!) and your agent just booked you a starring role in a TV series. It becomes a huge hit - it’ll run for years, and your career skyrockets. Probably not the easiest time in your life to have that baby.  With egg freezing, you can extend fertility on your terms by preserving your young eggs now and saving them for a time in your life when you are ready, willing and able to be the best parent you can. You can freeze your own eggs, or you can use an egg donor.

While the sperm bank has been around for decades and embryo freezing is very well-established, egg freezing is a much newer development – one that took many years to perfect. That’s why you don’t see egg freezing clinics popping up all over Los Angeles - not just any fertility clinic is equipped to perform oocyte cryopreservation.

SCRC - The Los Angeles Egg Freezing Experts

At Southern California Reproductive Center (SCRC), our fertility specialists have extensive experience in egg freezing; our physicians use only the most advanced techniques available.  Egg freezing is a multi-step procedure that involves treating the unfertilized eggs with a special vitrification solution in our state-of-the-art Los Angeles laboratory before they are subjected to rapid cooling and storage in liquid nitrogen.  Fertilization of the eggs is further ensured by using ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection), a powerful IVF technique.

Sperm Freezing

We also assist male patients by freezing sperm. Men may wish to delay having a baby for some of the same reasons women do.  Men may also use our sperm bank services because of:

• Testicular or prostate surgery, including vasectomy
• Leaving for military service

Our specialists can help you better understand cryopreservation techniques and explain how they can give you the freedom and flexibility in parenthood you deserve. The cost of egg or sperm freezing is more manageable than ever thanks to our various financing programs.