The Complete Guide to Egg Freezing: What to Expect on Your Journey at Twig Fertility

Considering egg freezing is a proactive and empowering step toward preserving your options for the future. The most common reason people explore this option is the age-related decline in fertility. We recognize that for any number of reasons, now may not yet be the right time to start or grow your family.

At Twig, we believe in keeping our patients informed with a transparent and supportive egg freezing roadmap.

Step 1: Preparation & Priming

This step happens in the months before your cycle starts.

• Personalized Plan: You’ll have an appointment with your fertility specialist to plan and review your personalized treatment plan.

• Priming Medications: Your physician may ask you to start medication to help prepare your ovaries for the upcoming stimulation. However your physician will discuss with you whether these medications are recommended.

Step 2: Contact Us on Your Day 1

When your period begins, you’ll report your Day 1 (the first day of full flow) to officially start your treatment cycle. If you don’t get a period, you can get started with your treatment cycle on any day.

Step 3: Ovarian Stimulation & Cycle Monitoring

This phase typically lasts 8 to 13 days and involves stimulating your ovaries to produce multiple eggs.

• Injections: You will take daily injectable hormonal medications to stimulate your ovaries. You may be instructed to add a second medication a few days later to prevent early ovulation. Your nurse will teach you how to use them during your first visit.

• Monitoring: We will closely track your progress with blood work and internal ultrasounds (cycle monitoring) every few days. Most people require 4-5 visits during the course of ovarian stimulation.

• The Trigger: Once your follicles are ready, you will take trigger medications on a specific date and time to help them mature in preparation for the retrieval.

Step 4: Egg Retrieval

Exactly 36 hours after your trigger injections, one of our physicians will carefully retrieve your eggs.

• Comfort Focus: This is a short (10–20 minute) procedure done at our clinic under conscious sedation to keep you as comfortable as possible.

• Aftercare: For your safety, you’ll need to have someone drive you home after the procedure.

Step 5: Egg Freezing & Storage

Once retrieved, your eggs are immediately handed off to our embryologist to be assessed and frozen.

• Vitrification: The eggs are rapidly cooled using a process called vitrification and stored in tanks containing liquid nitrogen.

• Storage: Your eggs will be safely stored at our clinic for future use.

Ready to explore your options? Click here to book a complimentary egg freezing consult. No referral required.