What is oocyte banking and Why is it needed? - Dr. Shwetha Y Baratikkae

What do we mean by oocycte banking? Oocycte banking is nothing but the egg freezing or the egg banking. Why is it needed at this point of time? Many of the women who are career orientated today, would want to push their families to start the families at a later point of life. But what would have happened is they would have become old by the time they think of starting their families. There is an option for such people, where you can have egg freezing or oocyte banking done. At a later date when you get married or you want to start the families, in case if there are no pregnancies, you can go back and utilise with oocyte and these embryos can be kept back in their uterus. Oocycte banking is done when people chose to push their families or chose to delay their marriage and most importantly is the malignancy or cancer. In such cases also you can go ahead with oocycte banking so that you can have fertility in future. This is something that people need to be aware of that there is an option and there is a possibility of a future pregnancy with their own eggs.