Egg Freezing in Delhi
Eggs are collected and vitrified at your current age, to be used whenever you are ready.
What egg freezing involves
Egg freezing separates the biological timeline from the personal one. The stimulation and retrieval are identical to an IVF cycle; instead of being fertilised, the mature eggs are vitrified and stored. When you decide to use them, they are warmed, fertilised by ICSI and transferred.
The single factor that determines how well this works is the age at which the eggs are frozen. Eggs frozen at 30 behave like eggs from a 30-year-old, whatever your age at the time of use. That is the entire point of doing it early.
Who this is for
- Women who want to delay childbearing for career or personal reasons
- Before chemotherapy, radiotherapy or ovarian surgery
- Declining ovarian reserve detected on AMH or antral follicle count
- Endometriosis requiring surgery that may reduce reserve
Not everything on this list means you need this treatment. The workup comes first, and the recommendation follows from what it shows — not from what was booked before you arrived.
Step by step
Counselling and reserve testing
AMH and antral follicle count give a realistic estimate of how many eggs one cycle will yield.
Stimulation
Ten to twelve days of injections with scan monitoring, as in IVF.
Retrieval
A short day procedure under anaesthesia.
Vitrification and storage
Mature eggs are flash-frozen and stored. You are told exactly how many were frozen.
Your results, in writing
Whatever the outcome of egg freezing, you leave each stage with the findings written down — what was done, what was found, what it means, and what the options are from here. Reports are issued the same day wherever the laboratory allows it.
Case study: Freezing at 31 rather than hoping at 38
31, Greater Kailash · single · no immediate plans for children
What she came in with
She came in not with a fertility problem but with a question: she was thirty-one, not in a relationship, and did not want to make a decision about a partner under a biological deadline.
What the workup showed
AMH 2.8 ng/ml with an antral follicle count of eighteen — a good reserve for her age. Counselling covered the honest numbers: roughly 15–20 mature eggs frozen before 35 gives a reasonable chance of one live birth, and one cycle would not get there.
What we did
Two stimulation cycles, three months apart, using an antagonist protocol with an agonist trigger to avoid hyperstimulation. Fourteen mature eggs vitrified in the first cycle and eleven in the second.
Outcome
Twenty-five mature eggs in storage, frozen at the age her body was, not the age she will be when she uses them.
The point of this case
The only variable that genuinely matters in egg freezing is the age at freezing. Doing it at 31 rather than 37 is worth more than any laboratory technique.
Illustrative case. This is a composite of presentations commonly seen in this practice, written for explanation — it is not the record of an identifiable patient, and no individual's details are used. Outcomes vary, and nothing here is a prediction of what will happen in your case.
What is different about having this done here
Honest advice on how many eggs you realistically need for one live birth
Multiple collection cycles planned where reserve is low
Annual storage terms explained in writing before you start
Fertility preservation prioritised and fast-tracked for cancer patients
Treated by the consultant, not by a rotating team
Dr. Tiwari performs the scans, the procedure and the follow-up herself, and looks after any pregnancy that results. Over a long treatment course that continuity is the difference between being known and being processed.
- MBBS, MS (Obstetrics & Gynaecology), FNB (Reproductive Medicine)
- Over ten years in reproductive medicine and gynaecological surgery
- Consultations and scans at Mother's Hope, Katwaria Sarai; theatre work at SHE Delhi Hospital, Greater Kailash II
- Itemised costs given in writing before anything begins
Areas we see patients from
Both locations are in South Delhi. Patients travelling from further out have appointments grouped to cut down the number of trips.
Questions about egg freezing
How many eggs should I freeze?
For a reasonable chance of one live birth, around 15–20 mature eggs frozen before 35 is a sensible target. Above 38 the number needed rises steeply. Many women need two collection cycles.
Until what age is egg freezing worthwhile?
It works best before 35 and is still reasonable to 37 or 38. Beyond 40 the yield and quality make it a much weaker proposition, and we will say so.
Does freezing eggs harm my future fertility?
No. The cycle recruits eggs that your body would have discarded that month anyway.
Talk it through before you commit
Consultations run for a full hour. Bring any previous reports — they are reviewed properly, not repeated.