Everything you need to know about freezing your eggs and the best age to do it

Research from a leading US fertility clinic has found that a woman's chance of a live birth from egg freezing is linked to her age at the time of retrieval. Irish medics say early to mid-30s is the ideal time to undergo the procedure but warn the results cannot be guaranteed 

“We tell every woman who enquires about egg freezing that she cannot be certain her eggs will produce a baby in the future,” says Dr John Waterstone, medical director of Waterstone Clinics.

What if women could press pause on the ticking of their biological clocks? What if a fertility treatment gave them extra time to build a career and find a partner before they settled down to start a family?

Egg freezing seems to offer this possibility, but new research suggests that we need to manage our expectations. Frozen eggs doesn’t always lead to pregnancy and a baby.