Is egg freezing experimental?
The answer is yes and no. The first successful pregnancy from egg freezing was reported in the medical journal Lancet in 1986 (Chen C. Lancet. 1986 Apr 19;1(8486):884-6). These early trials over 20 years ago in egg freezing initially reported poor pregnancy success rates. At that time with egg freezing was very poor and hovered around 1- to 2-percent pregnancy rate for some time. In 2003, Dr. Jeff Boldt published in Human Reproduction (Hum Reprod. 2003 Jun;18(6):1250-5.) his series of egg freezing in infertility patients. His egg-thaw survival rate was 74 percent and the fertilization rate was 59 percent. Overall, four of 11 patients delivered five babies for a pregnancy rate of 36 percent. Since publishing this paper Dr. Boldt’s statistics have improved with a 68.5-percent fertilization rate and 11 live births by June 2005. It is important to note that these data were derived from infertility patients undergoing IVF that did not want to freeze embryos, thus egg quality was not ideal,
