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What is the perfect life? Education degree? Successful career?

Making lots of money? Or happy family?

If someone could have all of them, she may be the winner in life.

In the real world, nothing is completely perfect, but these goals in life could be achieved after overcoming several setbacks and discouragements.

Ms. Hung came to the iCryobank for Social Oocytes Freezing when she was 42. She was definitely a typical winner among the peers. From senior high to college, she always studied at the top schools and got the top credits. After finishing the education in Taiwan, she went to U.S. for her PhD degree, and then received an offer at an international corporation. Since she was so talented and outgoing, she became the chief executive officer of Asian branch pretty soon.

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12/07/2015 01:36:00 AM
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In 2014, Apple and Facebook, US, offered to cover their female labor's for freezing eggs to help them focus on their career performances without worrying about the fertility issues.

After the news released, many female labors in Shanghai were stirred up. Lots of fertility centers at the local hospitals received the inquiries about "fertility preservation at the egg banks." quite often. However, the local fertility specialists reminded these excited females that the Chinese government still does not allow doing egg cryopreservation to the healthy women yet.

" Dr.X, would I freeze my eggs?" Miss Wang was already 32 years, and she was working for an art gallery. She visited an outpatient department of fertility center to consult about egg cryopreservation, since she had no romantic relationships in her busy life. In addition, she really hoped that she could focus on both art creation and finding her Mr. right in the future. With no clinical reports to prove the necessity of egg freezing, she was rejected by the fertility specialist immediately.

According to the Prof. Sun, an expert in the reproductive realm, the cases consulting for egg freezing were mainly females with age of 30 to 35 years, working in the big cities. They were well-educated and have ploughed on with the busy works to accumulate remarkable property for several years. Moreover, they were still waiting for the person to realize the dream of becoming a wife and a mother. The technique of egg freezing seems very promising and attractive.

"Out center only provides this service to two kinds of female cases. One is those who have oncologic issues and must cryopreserve their fertility before getting treatments. Another one is the IVF cases whose husbands could not provide their sperm samples on the oocyte retrieval date." Prof. Sun said.

What do we need to know,

a. Oocyte cryopreservation (egg freezing) is the former step of conventional IVF program, from controlled ovarian stimulation to oocyte vitrification.

b. Since the social structure changes dramatically, more female labors face the dilemma of focusing on their career lives or personal lives, so more countries have released this service to the women with this necessity, namely the cases with social-oocyte-freezing (SOF).

c. Taiwanese Reproductive Act does allow the SOF cases to do egg freezing at the local fertility centers.

➤Learn more about Egg Freezing procedure in Taiwan.

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1/08/2015 05:43:00 PM
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Looking at the genuinely sweet smile on my baby's face,

I just felt indescribable joy.

If I didn't feel the warmth from this tiny thing,

I would think that I was still in my dream.

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3/18/2014 07:27:00 PM
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The chances of a woman having a baby following IVF go "very rapidly downhill" from the age of 37, according to a study.

The University of Aberdeen study reports a woman's age affects the outcome of every single step of IVF. Researchers studied data from 121,744 women from across the UK.

We found that age impacted on every single hurdle that has to be overcome during the emotional rollercoaster that is IVF”Prof Siladitya BhattacharyaUniversity of Aberdeen
They found the chances of having a baby following IVF start to decline by the time the woman reaches her mid-30s, but especially from 37. The team used data from women who underwent their very first cycle of IVF between 2000 and 2007 using their own eggs. The research found that even after a pregnancy has been confirmed, women aged 38-39 were 43% more likely to have a miscarriage than women aged 18-34, while women aged 40-42 were almost twice as likely to lose the baby as the younger age group.

Prof Siladitya Bhattacharya, of the Reproductive Medicine team at the University of Aberdeen who led the research, said: "IVF comprises a number of key steps, each of which has to be successfully achieved before the next stage can be attempted.
"We found that age impacted on every single hurdle that has to be overcome during the emotional rollercoaster that is IVF.

"This influence of age is sustained at each stage of the IVF process.

"There is no point during an IVF treatment - even in women who have done well in a preceding stage - when age ceases to matter.

"Age has the capacity to increase the risk of treatment failure even in women who respond to hormonal treatment, have eggs harvested and embryos replaced."

'Dynamic' prediction
He concluded: "Many couples want to understand how their chances of having a baby evolve over the course of an IVF treatment.

"Previous work has been able to offer a global prediction of success in IVF.

"We hope our study provides a more accurate and dynamic way of predicting a couple's chances of treatment failure as they negotiate each step of IVF."

(Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-25258483)

The relationship between maternal age and pregnancy rate:

1. In Taiwanese records, 38 years is the crucial cut-off point to achieve a successful pregnancy. Based on the report of Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2007 to the women those undergoing IVF program, the pregnancy rate of the women under 35 years was 45.8%, and that of the women over 40 years was 14.8%; the live birth rate of the women under 35 years was 35.9%, and that of the women over 40 years was 7.4%. – The most important factor to the quality of ovaries and eggs is maternal age.

2. The solution to overcome the diminished ovarian decline is to "freeze the eggs" beforehand. If we can store our eggs through the recent cryo technique, we can arrange our life schedule flexibly and decrease the expenses to get pregnancy in the future.

How to choose the most appropriate clinical center to store my eggs?
1. Center with higher pregnancy rate in IVF realm
2. Annual cycles of frozen-thawed embryo transfer over 100, and live birth rate over 40%
3. Professional manager team
4. Individual storage space
5. Annual frozen-thawed case report

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12/11/2013 06:03:00 AM
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Fear and Fertility: Why I Decided to Freeze My Eggs

Posted: 11/23/2013 9:39 am

(Author: Cara E. Jones http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cara-e-jones/fear-and-fertility-why-i-decided-to-freeze-my-eggs_b_4310104.html)

"Don't be late, don't be late," I repeated to myself as I pulled into the parking garage at San Francisco's Pacific Fertility Center where I had planned to freeze my eggs. My lateness was surely a reflection of an ambivalence I had about the whole process. I was in too much of a rush to notice the "NOT AN ENTRANCE" sign on what appeared to be a front door. I then scurried up five flights and yanked on the 5th floor door. It didn't budge. I raced down the stairs pulling on the doors at the 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st floors. I was locked out of all of them.

After four increasingly stressful phone calls to the reception desk, a building security guard found me in what I later learned was a back entrance no one used. When I finally arrived where I was meant to be, I couldn't get my name out ahead of an unexpected rush of tears. My internal dialogue stirred up a mix of fearful emotions. "Why am I here? This is not the way I envisioned having a baby!" I provided name and address details to a receptionist who, seeing my fragile state, kindly escorted me to a private room to wait for my doctor. I was late for that appointment as well as a marriage and family that, in my mind, should have happened 10 years ago.

I had been married in my early 20s but divorced after the painful realization that I wasn't ready to be a partner or a mom. After years of traveling, figuring out who I was and intermittent stretches of dating unavailable men, I hit 37 wondering where the time went. As a fellow single friend put it "It's as if I forgot to set the alarm on my biological clock and slept through my 30s." I woke up in a panic. What if I missed my chance to have a family?

I had always thought I may adopt a child one day, but the idea that time was taking away my opportunity to have one of my own seemed unfair. I started experiencing each of my failed relationships like I did the locked doors in the stairwell. Each unsuccessful attempt to make one work left me feeling increasingly stressed.

I sat still fighting tears in my doctor's office when she walked in and welcomed me with a smile of a woman who had seen my strain of anxiety before. As she patiently and thoroughly explained the details of the egg freezing process I tried to wrestle my mind around a swirl of details involved. The idea of freezing the cells of babies-to-be in a $12,000 procedure was not part of my original life plan, but 40 minutes later there was one thing I was clear on: I would do this. I couldn't control when I would meet a potential partner but I could control this. The peace of mind alone seemed worth the big chunk of my savings.

I sat through my injection class in a haze as Power Point images of needles and vials appeared. The class made it all seem so simple. "Fill, measure, inject." It was simple. But on my first try I magically made several hundred dollars worth of liquid Menopur disappear by failing to load it into the correct syringe. I winced at the loss and the idea of injecting myself. I then held my breath, grabbed an inch of skin around my belly, and stuck the needle in.

I knew the hormones were kicking in when, on day three, I cried when someone cut me off in traffic. On day seven, a friend's "I admire what you're doing" sent tears streaming down my face.

But as each doctors visit allowed me to see ultrasound images of my little eggs multiplying, I was reminded of what my body was capable of. The truth is, while I was never confused about whether I wanted children, the thought that I might not get something I wanted so badly was painful. So, over the course of my many years being single, I slowly shut down my relationship with my fertility. And, like any difficult breakup, I wasn't sure we'd ever be getting back together.

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The morning of the extraction of my eggs, I walked my bloated belly into the procedure room and made small talk with the anesthesiologist. Before I knew what happened, I woke up to a nurse tapping me on the shoulder to congratulate me. In a drug-induced stupor I cried out "I'm soooo proud of myself!!!"

When a technician later arrived with a snapshot of the microscopic eggs, I studied the contours of each with pride and awe. Those that survived the process will be held for safe keeping until I choose to use or dispose of them. While there is no guarantee of their quality or that any will survive the many steps between being thawed and becoming a baby, I am relived to have them.

This year I went to my 15 year college reunion where, for the first time I can remember, the site of pregnant bellies and waddling toddlers didn't trigger feelings of despair. Doing what I could to preserve my fertility has made me less afraid of losing it.

In the months since, I've been taking better care of my health and feeling less averse to being alone. Perhaps not surprisingly, I'm one of several women I know who started the best romantic relationship of their lives within months of her egg freeze. Maybe its like one of my dad's favorite expressions: "Our ships come in on calm seas."

I'm sure if I had been in a little less of a hurry the day of my first appointment I would have seen the "NOT AN ENTRANCE" sign, walked in the "correct" door and not been late. Still I can't regret that 20-minute detour, nor the 10-year one that took me off track from the life I had planned. But I do believe that sometimes when we stop being in such a fear-driven hurry, life is far more likely to get us where we want to be. Right on time.

Don't be late!

What is the real age of my ovaries?

AMH	> 6	4	3	2	1
Age of the ovaries (y/o)	< 25	35	38	40	43 >

How about the efficiency of IVF program based on my age?

AMH	> 2	< 2	< 0.8
Reserved amount of the oocytes	Enough	Obviously decrease	Severely decrease
Stimulated amount of the oocytes in IVF program	4<	≦4	1~2
Doctor' s suggestions	Start considering to freeze the oocytes based on my age	Start freezing my oocytes as soon as possible	Start freezing my oocytes as soon as possible