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A Place In The Sun's Scarlette Douglas admits she never imagined ending up '37 with no man and no baby' before deciding to freeze her eggs
The former A Place In The Sun host underwent the procedure earlier this year in hopes of having a family at some point in the future, despite not currently being in a relationship.
This treatment entails multiple visits to the fertility clinic over a few weeks, with your blood hormone levels and ovaries regularly monitored. When the time is right for them to come out, a medical professional will use an ultrasound guided needle and, with a suction device, remove the eggs — seven to 14, on average, for women aged under 38 — from the ovarian follicles. The extracted eggs will be transported into the laboratory, evaluated, and flash-frozen by an embryologist — using an ultra-rapid procedure called vitrification — and then typically placed into a flask containing liquid nitrogen.
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