Embryo freezing in Mumbai, Maharashtra

Embryo freezing lets a couple use one egg collection for more than one transfer, and it lets a clinic delay a transfer when the timing is wrong, for instance after an over-response to stimulation or when the womb lining is not ready. Embryos are frozen by vitrification, usually at the blastocyst stage on the fifth or sixth day, and are kept in liquid nitrogen. For a frozen transfer, the womb lining is prepared with hormones or by tracking a natural cycle, the embryo is thawed on the planned day, and the transfer itself is the same short procedure as a fresh one.

All 3 of the Mumbai listings on this directory that name embryo freezing on their own website hold the Level 2 registration that the ART Act requires for creating and storing embryos. None of them holds an ART bank registration. That does not limit freezing your own embryos; a bank registration is about donor eggs and sperm.

The consent form you sign before freezing decides what can happen to your embryos later, so read it slowly and ask questions. Ask what it says about use if you separate, if one of you dies, or if one of you withdraws consent. Ask how long the Act allows embryos to be stored, how you will be reminded, and what your choices are at the end: using them, donating them for research where permitted, or letting them perish. Ask what the annual storage fee is and what happens if it goes unpaid.

Ask, too, how the clinic labels and tracks each embryo, how its storage tanks are monitored at night and on holidays, and whether frozen embryos can be moved to another clinic at your request.

This directory has no doctor recorded against these listings yet. Among Mumbai's 132 listings in this directory, many more clinics freeze embryos without naming it on their websites, so this page is a starting point, not a complete list.