How many eggs should I freeze?

A large IVF unit in the US has used its extensive database to calculate how many eggs women should freeze to have a reasonable chance of a having a live birth when they return to use the eggs later.

The figure below illustrates by how much the chance of a live birth rate increases with the number of frozen eggs that are available. That chance declines with a woman's age. The highest chance is achieved when using donor eggs (usually from young fertile egg donors).

The following link takes you to an online calculator developed by the same researchers who published this graph. The calculator allows you to predict the likelihood of having 1, 2 or 3 children with a given number of frozen oocytes collected at a specified age.

Source: Human Reproduction, Vol.32, No.4 pp. 853–859, 2017