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The mother is very happy after having a daughter of the beautiful and perfect from the eggs cells that have been frozen for six months, before her husband spermatozoa fertilized cell. This new technique called vitrification, or cell vitrifikasi eggs.
First baby born in Australia with the technology of egg freezing cells is Lucy (not actual name). Her baby was born in October 2008 in North Sydney Australia.

Both the baby’s parents also claim to be concealed very happy. “My husband and I are very pleased with our little girl is beautiful. We are delighted to have more children and will choose treatment for IVF (in vitro fertilization) again, “said the mother was aged 38 years to the Daily Telegraph.

Freezing technique with egg cells, each woman has the choice in their reproduction. They can have a delay of children. This technique also is suitable for people with cancer before they undergo radiation and chemotherapy. For, chemotherapy often affects reproductive system damage.

The success of these will encourage the increased interest in egg freezing cells. For, during this process is difficult because successful human egg cells are very fragile. Cell egg freezing technique is most attractive single women who want to delay a child.

The process can be a cost of 10,000 Australian dollars (about Rp 80 million) that will provide the opportunity for women to freeze eggs cells in the early age of 30 years to have children later in pengujung 30s.

Liquid nitrogen

During this technique the level of success outside of Australia is very low, only around 63 percent. Conditions that slow the progress of egg freezing technique. However, since July 2006, Sydney IVF technique offers vitrifikasi egg cell that provides the level of success is almost 100 percent.

The high level of success thanks to the revolutionary technique of egg freezing cells do. IVF breakthrough that implement this new snap freezing of the egg cell, is the largest cell in the body and contains a lot of water.

Problems found in the classic egg freezing is a drop in temperature below freezing point. Ice crystals in the egg will cause damage to genetic material. However, with the new method, which is stored in liquid nitrogen vapor, the damage can be overcome.

Vitrifikasi techniques have been used around the world to freeze embryo, but never successfully used in Australia to freeze eggs.
General Manager Sydney IVF Dr Kylie de Boer expects the amount of women and couples who want to freeze their eggs can be increased. “Many women who want to freeze their eggs for social reasons, such as not ready to have children, or for medical reason,” he said.

“We get about five to 10 requests a month from now to egg freezing for social reasons. This technique provides all the reproductive choices, “augment him.

In Australia, as far as this new 25 couples using egg freezing cells. Australia is one of several countries, including Italy and Japan, which use the process. This process involves the cells to 10 eggs frozen and stored in liquid nitrogen vapor. When a woman ready to have children, the eggs will be fertilized with sperm, and embryo will ditanamkan on the woman.

Dr de Boer expect more single women or couples will undergo these procedures. According to him, women aged 72 can be delivered in the year abroad as Sidney and most IVF clinics in Australia against women over the age of 45 years following the
IVF treatments.

Parents Lucy, who does not want to be identified, using this process as part of the IVF treatment. Lucy was the mother when the process was still aged 37 years. He saves the cell eggs for six months before the fertilized embryo implantation and carried out. (Source: Kompas)