Career women leave egg freezing too late

Career women in their twenties who want to delay motherhood should freeze their eggs, according to fertility experts.

Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya will tell members of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists at a debate in London tomorrow that women still have no control over the right time to have a baby.

The childbirth expert, from the University of Aberdeen, told the Standard: "Increasing numbers of women are coming to us in their thirties and forties for IVF whose outcomes are poor. It's at that point that clinics wished they had access to better quality eggs. Egg freezing has to be carried out when women are much younger - if you're in your late thirties it defeats the whole purpose."

The Standard revealed last month that London clinics are reporting a huge rise in the number of single women having their eggs frozen.