Was Kurena the first woman to have a baby through vitrification?
Dr. Tucker: The Hills came were our first attempt at utilizing the vitrification process to freeze and store her eggs. The problem with egg freezing in general is finding a clinical niche where it is applicable. For a woman, say, who is simply looking to freeze eggs for a rainy day, for example, if she is 35 and hasn’t found the man of her dreams, it’s a tough sale to say, come in, and for X amount of dollars we will freeze your eggs, and in four, five or six years when you have found a partner, we will thaw your eggs out and maybe 50 to 80 percent of those eggs will survive. Maybe we can offer you a ten, 20, 30 percent pregnancy rate, but we really don’t know. The Hills enabled us — we were already undertaking infertility therapy with them – and they presented a situation that was problematic … we had too many eggs, so let’s simply remove the vast majority of those eggs, freeze them and give her another go around next month or the month after and attempt pregnancy. As far as they wer
