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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Clea Skopeliti and Jedidajah Otte

‘I’m investing some hope’: four women on their decision to freeze their eggs

Egg storage for IVF.
Egg storage for IVF. Egg freezing is not normally available on the NHS. Photograph: Science Photo Library/Getty Images

At 42, Caroline, a financial analyst from Manchester, assumed she had left it too late to look into egg freezing.

“The people at the fertility clinic did tell me chances of success weren’t high – under 5% if I remember correctly. So, I was prepared for that,” Caroline, who was single at the time, says. “I wasn’t even 100% sure I wanted children at all at that point, but this was my last and only chance to have children that are biologically related to me, so I went for it anyway.”

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