When freezing eggs, not all clinics are the same.
You can do a good job or a bad job freezing eggs.
When freezing eggs, not all clinics are the same. Here’s why I choose to align my practice at Women’s Health Melbourne with Life Fertility Clinic Melbourne.
Trusted experts with runs on the board.
You can do a good job or a bad job freezing eggs. It comes down to the doctor, how the patient’s cycle is planned and managed, backed up by a great IVF laboratory.
The kind of care I would want for myself.
At Women’s Health Melbourne and through my relationship with Life Fertility Clinic, my patients receive boutique, individualized care. Unlike many doctors, I plan and monitor egg freeze treatments and perform many procedures personally. I also work closely with my skilled colleague Dr Rachael Knight. Between us we ensure that our patients egg collections are always able to be performed on the optimal day for their cycle, not reliant on our individual daily schedules. Our approach is based on expert teamwork, allowing expert timing to get the most out of your egg freezing cycle.
I am a CREI trained fertility specialist (highest level qualification) and hold a PhD in preconception health promotion. My dedicated research and long-term clinical involvement in the area of elective egg freezing has been a professional passion as I truly believe this technology has the potential to benefit so many women. I have developed targeted, personalized strategies to obtain optimal results for my patients.
Here is the check list of what you need to achieve best patient outcomes in egg freezing:
1. A high quality fertility consultation to work out which strategic options are best for you. Egg freezing is one of many options to help a women plan her family. Realistic counselling and a truth-based care approach will allow you to plan for the correct number of treatment cycles to achieve the strong resource you require to be an egg freezing success story.
2. A best practice laboratory like Life Fertility Clinic Melbourne.
3. A specialist with a proven track record of making babies from frozen eggs
4. Individualised treatment planning and outcome monitoring during your treatment. Protocolised “one size fits all” programs are very unlikely to achieve your best outcome from egg freezing.
5. A good, comfortable anaesthetic for egg collection in a safe, high quality operating theatre.
6. Have the procedure performed by an expert surgeon. Like all areas of medicine, there exists variation in surgical operator dexterity, precision, skill and experience in the egg collection procedure. Both I (Dr Raelia Lew) and Dr Rachael Knight have performed thousands of egg collection procedures successfully. You can rest assured, your egg collection will be performed in the best hands.
6. Aftercare: choosing a specialist who, down the track, can help you have a baby.
Written by Dr Raelia Lew
RANZCOG Board Certified CREI Fertility specialist, Gynaecologist and the Director of Women’s Health Melbourne.
Co-host of the Knocked Up Podcast, Co-founder of Lovers intimate wellness solutions. Raelia has a PhD in Preconception Health Promotion and Genetic Screening. Raelia is a leading Australian expert in IVF and egg freezing, pioneering a bespoke model of care.