She Lives In NYC But Flew To London To Freeze Her Eggs, Because She Says It’s Literally A Third Of The Cost Over There
Have you ever thought that you’d like to have a baby someday, but you don’t want to take that step in your life right now?
Maybe your doctor recommended that you freeze your eggs. But in America, this can be a difficult solution because the cost of freezing your eggs is outrageously expensive. TikToker Brittany Allyn, @thirtywaves, found a solution to this: freezing your eggs overseas.
“This is the story of a single 30-something living in New York City and heading to London to freeze my eggs for one-third of the cost,” Brittany said in a video.
But what does freezing your eggs actually do? According to the Mayo Clinic, freezing your eggs is a way of protecting your future reproductive abilities.
“Egg freezing, also known as mature oocyte cryopreservation, is a method used to save women’s ability to get pregnant in the future,” the Mayo Clinic website said.
The process of egg freezing can take some time and involves several steps.
“Eggs harvested from your ovaries are frozen unfertilized and stored for later use,” the website explained. “A frozen egg can be thawed, combined with sperm in a lab, and implanted in your uterus (in vitro fertilization).”
The Mayo Clinic website also explains that egg freezing can be done for a multitude of health reasons but would typically be done for someone looking to wait to get pregnant who doesn’t want age to be a risk factor in pregnancy complications.
“Egg freezing might be an option if you’re not ready to become pregnant now but want to try to make sure you can get pregnant later,” the website said. “Freezing eggs at a younger age might help you get pregnant when you’re ready.”
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But depending on where you are located, egg freezing isn’t always affordable.
“The average cost of freezing your eggs in New York is $15,000,” Brittany said. “In London, I’m paying around $6,000 for everything.”
The difference in pricing for the entire egg freezing process between New York and London is astronomical. London’s pricing includes everything that you’d need for this process, she explained.
“The cost for the procedure with medicine, doctor’s appointments, retrieval: $5,000–and that also included one year of storage,” she said.
“After that, it’s around $300 for storage, so I think it’s still cheaper because I think in New York, it’s like 7 or 8 hundred dollars a year for storage.”
She mentions, too, that doing this abroad means that you’ll have to consider factors like airfare and housing accommodations for about a month, but even still, the cost is less than it would be for just the procedure alone in New York.
No matter where you get this procedure done, there are still chances that it won’t work out. Unfortunately, this became a reality for Brittany.
“My body just isn’t ready,” she explained in an update. “You don’t hear enough about the multiple rounds and the unsuccessful tries.”
Even with that risk, it may still be worth it to hop on a plane to Europe to go through the egg freezing process if it’s what your heart desires.
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