What are the advantages of embryo cryopreservation?

What are the advantages of embryo cryopreservation?

Embryo freezing can help people get pregnant later in life if they are facing current barriers, such as:

• Advancing age.
• Gender transition.
• Infertility issues.
• Social/personal reasons like if you’re pursuing higher level education or have professional demands and plan to delay pregnancy for several years.
• Treatment that may damage fertility (for example, chemotherapy or pelvic radiation therapy for cancer).
• Upcoming military deployment.
• Women without a partner may be concerned about advancing age and choose to either freeze eggs or embryos that they create with donor sperm.

What are the risks or complications of this procedure?

• Embryos are damaged during the freezing process.
• Embryos that are unable to be frozen.
• Failure to conceive after embryos have been thawed and implanted.
• Increased rates of pregnancy-related medical complications such as preeclampsia and placenta accrete spectrum.
• If more than one embryo is implanted, multiple births occur (twins or triplets).