Egg Freezing at 30 vs. 40: What You Need to Know
Posted on February 19th, 2025
Many women and couples are postponing growing their families for various reasons, including career focus, travel, and more. If you want to have children later in life, one of the best ways to preserve your fertility is to freeze your eggs. While you can freeze your eggs in your 20s, 30s, or even 40s, your chances of pregnancy success in the future are higher the younger you are when you freeze them.
What Is the Best Age to Freeze Your Eggs?
Women are born with a limited number of eggs, which decreases with age. After age 35, both the quantity and quality of eggs decline more rapidly. Therefore, if you’re considering egg freezing, it's best to do so before the age of 35. The earlier you freeze your eggs, the better your chances of retrieving more high-quality eggs.
Egg Freezing at 40: Is It Possible?
Every person's fertility is different, and it's completely possible to successfully freeze your eggs at the age of 40 and start a family later. However, research indicates that those who freeze their eggs before the age of 36 are more likely to experience successful outcomes. For women who are 40 and older, freezing eggs typically results in very low success rates.
Start Your Egg Freezing Journey Today
If you’re interested in freezing your eggs, the sooner you take steps to do so, the better. Ultimately, it’s never too late to freeze your eggs, but you are significantly more likely to see success if you freeze your eggs closer to the age of 30 than to 40.
At Aspire HFI, our reproductive specialists can walk you through the egg freezing process and help you start your journey as soon as possible. Contact us today for more information or to schedule an appointment at our Houston, Willowbrook, Cypress, Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland, The Woodlands, Memorial City, Beaumont, Kingwood, or Clear Lake locations.
