Oocyte cryopreservation, or the freezing of eggs, is a method that an increasing number of women in Kuwait are resorting to in order to ensure their ability to get pregnant at a future date.
Most women turning to cryopreservation in Kuwait are over the age of 40, while elsewhere the trend is for younger women to approach this procedure. Usually women of a younger age group have a variety of reasons why they would want to preserve their egg, including the ability to get pregnant at a time of their choosing. Other factors include circumstances that affect their fertility, or needing medical treatments such as radiation or chemotherapy that could impair their ability to get pregnant, or wanting to freeze eggs at a younger age to use when they are financially more stable.
Older women usually turn to cryopreservation either from an inability to conceive or because they suffer other ailments that could worsen their potential to conceive in future.Moreover, cryopreservation is considered acceptable by many people who would otherwise have religious or ethical objections to such in-vitro procedures.
A reproductive health specialist in Kuwait said that most women in Kuwait who opt for cryopreservation are beyond what is considered ‘marriage age’ or wish to postpone their pregnancy for social or economic reasons. Incidentally, for married women in Kuwait, the husband’s approval is a condition for conducting the egg freezing operation, and it is not cheap, costing in excess of KD5,000.
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