Egg freezing in Mumbai, Maharashtra

Egg freezing stores a woman's own unfertilised eggs for use later. The process starts like IVF: about two weeks of daily hormone injections to stimulate the ovaries, monitoring scans and blood tests, then a trigger injection and an egg collection under sedation. The mature eggs are frozen by vitrification within hours and stored in liquid nitrogen. Years later they can be thawed, fertilised by ICSI, and the resulting embryo transferred. The egg freezing explainer on this directory explains why the age at which eggs are frozen matters more than the age at which they are used.

Some women freeze eggs for medical reasons, before treatment that could harm fertility; others choose to, because they want more time. In both cases the decision is about later as much as now, so the practical questions are about storage: what it costs each year, how long the clinic will keep eggs under India's ART Act, how renewal works, and whether eggs can be transferred if you move. Ask too how many eggs the clinic usually aims to freeze for a woman of your age, and why.

In Mumbai, 11 listings on this directory name egg freezing on their own website. Of those, 10 are registered at Level 2 on the national ART registry and 1 carries no level in the registry extract; none is at Level 1. 3 of the 11 hold an ART bank registration, the registration that allows a facility to store and supply eggs. Mumbai's list here does not include Thane or Navi Mumbai, which the registry records as cities of their own with separate pages in this directory.

This directory has no doctor recorded against these listings yet, so ask each clinic who would manage the stimulation and where your eggs would physically be stored. Ask what would happen to your eggs if the clinic moved or closed, because storage can outlast both; 75 of Mumbai's 132 registry listings are registered at Level 2.