Many women freeze their eggs to increase their chances of having children later — but that's not always a possibility. (Photo: Getty; designed by Quinn Lemmers) Ahead, women whose frozen eggs didn't ...

Egg freezing, also known as oocyte cryopreservation or vitrification, is the process of taking one or more eggs out of your ovaries and storing them at very low temperatures for use in the future.

A UK medical writer who doesn’t think she wants to have children has donated 88 eggs to help four couples start families. Alex Webster, 31, hatched a plan after discovering in 2016 that her friend ...

Karishma Mehta, the CEO of Humans of Bombay, recently made a very important personal announcement on social media: she has frozen her eggs at 32. This step represents an important movement in the ...

Megan B., a 36-year-old therapist and executive coach living in New York, decided to freeze her eggs after a breakup at 35. But it wasn’t an easy decision. “This is such an empowering thing, and ...

For decades, those hoping to become pregnant have turned to doctors to freeze their eggs in a process called oocyte cryopreservation with the intention of using their eggs at a later time. Though the ...