For the first time in medical history, a woman in Montreal has frozen 21 of her eggs so that her six year old daughter having Turners syndrome could use them in future.
Turner’s syndrome occurs in about one out of every 2,500 girls, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. It is a condition found only in girls who lack one or part of one of the X chromosomes, i.e. sex-chromosomes, that carry genes for conditions relating to the development of ovaries, sex-hormone production, and physical development in general.This relationship leads to faulty development of the ovaries and sex-hormone production, and due to this these women usually cannot get pregnant according to aaa.
Girls with Turners syndrome are likely to have a short stature, drooping eyelids and under developed female sexual characteristics at puberty with no menstruation.The only way to treat this condition is to give hormone injections and estrogen replacement therapy which would help the girls to grow tall and develop sexual characteristics.
Flash Freezing of eggs:
According to pregnancy-info, freezing eggs is a much more difficult procedure than freezing either sperms or embryos. Women’s eggs are likely to be damaged during the thawing process as the female cells are large, fragile and filled with water. The flash-freezing technique eliminates the formation of ice crystals that could damage the egg and thereby upping the chances of freezing more eggs. The pregnancy rate for the frozen eggs is almost as good as that for fresh eggs.
The new method offers hope to thousands of women who long to have a child but cannot due to conditions like Turners syndrome and cancer. Women are opting to have babies beyond their natural child-bearing years because of demanding careers and since the quality of eggs decline as the women age, they may find this as a good option to have a healthy baby.
Freezing eggs is an expensive affair and costs about $12,000 but not more expensive than the smile of a child who’s born!
