Does egg-harvesting jeopardize natural fertility by removing good eggs?
While a woman ovulates one egg each month, there are actually multiple eggs that are absorbed in the process of selecting this egg for ovulation. When eggs are retrieved, the eggs that a woman would normally lose that month are simply “rescued.” This means that there should be no adverse effect on future fertility from egg-retrieval. Women that undergo egg-retrieval should see no difference in the number of cycles they would normally have over their lifetime, and will enter menopause at the same time they would have without an egg-retrieval. Furthermore, the quality of their remaining eggs will not be compromised by the egg-retrieval.
