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Heartbreak­ing story every woman MUST read before she freezes her eggs

Single at 36, ALICE MANN put her fertility on ice. Four years later, she tried to get pregnant. Here, with devastatin­g honesty, she tells the...

- by Alice Mann

SO,’ saID the voice on the phone. ‘Of the seven eggs that we defrosted, only two fertilised successful­ly. and I’m afraid both of those are abnormal. You don’t have any embryos to transfer.’ Tears welled in my eyes. No embryos to transfer. Not one. Of the 14 eggs I had frozen four years previously, at the age of 36, and at a cost of £14,000, not a single one had produced the one thing I wanted: a baby. Devastated doesn’t begin to cover it. I knew I was a pioneer of sorts — the first woman at my clinic to attempt to get pregnant using eggs I’d frozen because I was single.

I knew, too, that the procedure came with no guarantees. But, until that point, the one thing it had given me was hope. suddenly, all that was gone. at 40, I no

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