If you and your partner struggle with infertility or you’d like to become pregnant in the future (just not right now), consider embryo banking at CARE Fertility in Bedford and Fort Worth, Texas. The skilled reproductive endocrinologists and infertility specialists offer this service to freeze and store embryos (fertilized eggs), so you can start or expand your family down the road. Schedule an evaluation by calling the nearest office or booking one online today.
Embryo banking at CARE Fertility is a process of freezing and storing embryos for future use. You can store one or more embryos after undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF involves fertilizing eggs with sperm in a lab, creating embryos that can develop into a baby when implanted into a woman’s uterus.
Embryo banking is a form of fertility preservation. You might choose it if you have cancer or another disease and want to have children after undergoing chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgeries that may contribute to infertility.
You might opt for embryo banking if you’d like to have children later in life, but want to preserve healthy eggs or embryos until you’re ready to begin a family. Eggs released by women earlier in life are often of healthier and higher quality than those of women 35 and older.
The advantages of choosing embryo banking at CARE Fertility include utmost safety and effectiveness and the ability to build a family when the time is right. You can also choose to freeze your eggs, unfertilized, for future use. The CARE Fertility experts help you determine if egg freezing or embryo banking are best suited for you.
Your CARE Fertility provider discusses your medical history and family planning goals to learn if you’re a candidate for embryo banking. They may suggest lab work, expanded genetic carrier screening, or other diagnostic tests. CARE Fertility also offers donated embryos, available to people struggling with infertility that are donated by couples who have completed IVF.
The first step of embryo banking is often egg retrieval. Your provider may give you hormones to stimulate ovulation. They retrieve some of your eggs during a minimally invasive procedure. You can freeze the eggs or have them fertilized in a lab by a partner's sperm or donated sperm to create an embryo, which can also be frozen and stored.
When you’re ready to use your embryos to start a family, your provider can implant them into your uterus (or a surrogate’s uterus) to begin the process of fetal growth and development. If you have any extra embryos you don’t plan to use in the future, you can donate them to a family going through infertility.
Learn more about embryo banking at CARE Fertility and determine if it’s right for you by calling the office or booking an appointment online today.