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Also, like many fertility-assistance procedures, freezing your eggs isn’t a guarantee that you’ll be able to get pregnant — and age is a factor. A recent study found that freezing your eggs before 34 years old leads to the most chance of success. “Egg freezing is a wonderful option for women, but they do need to realize that the age at which a woman freezes her eggs can impact future success,” Jane Frederick, M.D., a board certified reproductive endocrinologist and fertility expert from Orange County, Calif., tells SELF. An egg is also a single cell and is more fragile than an embryo, Frederick points out, so if a woman has a partner she wants to create embryos with, that’s a better option — embryos are grown out for five days in the lab and contain more than 100 cells.