Egg freezing, a blessing for women

More women who wish to pursue their career or higher education are opting for egg freezing. If a woman wants to postpone starting a family, she can now do so, and have healthy eggs stored for future use.

Women who undergo chemotherapy or radiotherapy during their fertile years can avail this facility and conceive at a later stage.

I would definitely support such advanced technology and would request career oriented women to make use of these facilities. Diana Hayden former Miss World was recently in the news for having delivered a baby girl conceived using her frozen eggs. Women can be tension free once they have frozen eggs in store. It is now said that anything between 6-10 eggs can help conceive a baby. The quality of eggs are supposed to be superior in younger women. The stress related to not having a child is huge for married couples and many resort to using scientific methods or surrogacy.

With age, lifestyle, stress and so on, you are likely to have more complications to conceive. Medical science plays an important role, it is definitely a blessing. Once a couple realise they have a problem conceiving they should, without further delay, approach a good specialist.

Egg freezing can be considered as the latest addition to these infertility methods. A new hope and solution for women who are unable to devote time to start a family because of their dreams to excel in a career.

It may not be too far when we can have genetically modified babies, which would help eliminate mutated genes and genetic disorders, to have healthy babies. However, medical science should be used in an ethical manner and should not be abused.

- The reader is based in Dubai