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Take control of your future by freezing your eggs with Thérapie Fertility! Egg freezing at a younger age gives your future family the best possible chance.
Feel empowered and consider your future self. By freezing your eggs, hopefully you will be more fertility aware. It’s not an ‘insurance policy’ but it certainly is an additional support in your future journey to growing your family.
Egg Freezing has been around for a long time and was initially used for women undergoing medical treatment that threatened their future fertility.
As lifestyles have changed the procedure is now also being used by women who aren’t ready to have children immediately. You may find that egg freezing removes some of the pressure that surrounds important life choices and in turn helps to make you more fertility aware.
Egg freezing has the potential to give you the best possible chance of starting a family in the years ahead.
Under the care of our team, a woman is given fertility medications, mainly in the form of injections to stimulate her ovaries to produce multiple follicles. Follicles are the small fluid filled structures within the ovaries, each of which will hopefully contain an egg.
The number and size of the developing follicles is measured by trans-vaginal ultrasound scans. The exact number of follicles which develop varies greatly between patients. One of the purposes of testing is to give you and us an idea in advance of how many follicles and eggs may develop.
The final preparation for egg retrieval involves a hormone injection which mimics the natural trigger for ovulation. Egg retrieval will take place 36 hours after this injection.
Egg retrieval is a minor theatre procedure which is carried out in the clinic under sedation.
A trans-vaginal ultrasound probe is used and a needle attached to the probe is carefully passed through the vaginal wall into the ovaries and follicles.
The ovarian fluid within each follicle is aspirated and then examined in the IVF laboratory by the embryologist for the presence of an egg.
After identification, the eggs are vitrified (fast frozen) and stored in liquid nitrogen tanks at very low temperatures.
Under the care of our team, a woman is given fertility medications, mainly in the form of injections to stimulate her ovaries to produce multiple follicles. Follicles are the small fluid filled structures within the ovaries, each of which will hopefully contain an egg.
The number and size of the developing follicles is measured by trans-vaginal ultrasound scans. The exact number of follicles which develop varies greatly between patients. One of the purposes of testing is to give you and us an idea in advance of how many follicles and eggs may develop.
The final preparation for egg retrieval involves a hormone injection which mimics the natural trigger for ovulation. Egg retrieval will take place 36 hours after this injection.
Egg retrieval is a minor theatre procedure which is carried out in the clinic under sedation.
A trans-vaginal ultrasound probe is used and a needle attached to the probe is carefully passed through the vaginal wall into the ovaries and follicles.
The ovarian fluid within each follicle is aspirated and then examined in the IVF laboratory by the embryologist for the presence of an egg.
After identification, the eggs are vitrified (fast frozen) and stored in liquid nitrogen tanks at very low temperatures.
Women who, for whatever reason, want to defer starting their families until a time when age may become more of a factor in determining success can consider egg freezing. We know that women in Ireland are starting their families at a later age, about 32. This unfortunately means that a higher proportion of women and couples will need assistance. At Thérapie fertility we really want all women to be fertility aware. This means getting checked and learning what YOUR fertility potential is, earlier rather than later. This will allow you to make an informed choice about whether egg freezing may be a suitable avenue for you to take.
Every month a woman recruits a number of follicles and eggs but only one or two grow to maturity and are released. The rest are lost. The purpose of the stimulation medications is to capture eggs that were going to be lost that month anyway. So we can reassure you that by stimulating your ovaries and freezing your eggs we are not compromising your future fertility.
One of the key factors influencing a woman’s reproductive ability is age. As women age the number and quality of their eggs falls (the same is also true of men and their sperm!). By freezing eggs at a younger age, ideally under 34 years old, you preserve those eggs and prevent their natural decline as you get older. You may never end up needing or using your frozen eggs. In fact, when it comes time for you to have children we would recommend using more natural methods first. But many find that having eggs frozen removes some of the pressure that surrounds important life choices and in turn helps to make them more fertility aware. And it gives a potential alternative route to your family in the event that you find yourself struggling to conceive. In short, knowing that you have your eggs frozen may actually assist you in conceiving naturally.
Big thanks from Ariana and ofcourse from happy Mama and Daddy for great experience to all staff members of fertility clinic carrickmines from reception up to top !!!
We cannot speak highly enough of the exceptional care we received from everyone at Therapie Fertility. We first visited for fertility testing and chose to continue our journey with them through IUI and eventually IVF. Every appointment was met with a warm, friendly welcome, and over time we got to know all the nurses and Dr. Kennedy so well. Communication through the patient portal was clear and convenient, which made the process even smoother. We were incredibly fortunate to achieve success and now have a beautiful baby boy. We’ve already recommended Therapie Fertility to friends on similar journeys. Thank you so much for everything!
My experience at Therapie has been nothing but positive! All the doctors and nurses were absolutely amazing. I started my fertility journey with therapie February 2024 as a solo mother by choice and I couldn’t have chosen a better clinic to start my journey. Lisa the nurse in Galway was nothing but outstanding throughout my time with her. Her professionalism and kindness towards her patients and the communication via the portal always gave me reassurance on any questions I had throughout the whole process. I now have my beautiful baby boy and forever grateful for all at therapie for helping to make my dream come true of becoming a mammy to my beautiful baby boy who I welcomed the beginning of October 2025 🩵
Thérapie Fertility has been a place of genuine care and compassion from the very beginning. The team consistently offered thoughtful support, always taking the time to listen and understand our needs. Every appointment felt personal, never rushed, and centred on what was best for us not just medically, but emotionally too. Their honesty and transparency stood out explaining each step clearly, never giving false promises, but always giving us grounded, realistic hope. We always felt informed, supported, and reassured throughout the entire process. Thanks to their expertise and heartfelt approach, we now have two beautiful children something we once only dreamed of. We are deeply grateful for the way they cared for us, shared our sadness and our joy!
Me and my partner have nothing but good things to say about therapie fertility, from the minute we stepped inside it was nothing but calm, comfort and endless knowledge from the doctors and nurses! We were made feel very comfortable and we left that first free consultation with so much confidence, in less than a year from the first meeting we fell pregnant and now have a beautiful baby boy now! We can’t thank you enough!!
I want to thank everyone in Thérapie for my wonderful experience from start to finish. Last year on the 27th of August I walked into their Dundalk clinic and spoke with Amy, she answered every question I had and I left with such hope, knowing I didn’t need to look anywhere else, this clinic was for me. Everyone at every stage of this journey I’m so grateful for. This year on the 27th of August I welcomed my beautiful daughter into the world, as a single mother by choice, after suffering heartbreaking losses long the way. I couldn’t have done it without Thérapie and the team. I would happily recommend them to anyone needing assistance on their fertility journey.
It would be remiss of me to give anything other than 5 stars for this review since we had one cycle of reciprocal IVF (my eggs were removed, fertilized and one embryo was implanted into partner) which resulted in the birth of health identical twin babies. We had used another clinic before (and had a successful pregnancy) but weren’t entirely happy with the service received. We felt dr Kennedy was straight talking, realistic, and pragmatic as well as very down to earth. He gave us a very clear clinical plan & the rest was organized by the nurses and admin staff. If I was pushed to provide constructive feedback, I’d say that the pricing for the “complete reciprocal package” was a little ambiguous as there were a few of times we were surprised with being asked to pay €100 here and there without explanation (when challenged this, the additional cost was revoked which was appreciated). In summary, we found the whole experience very professional, friendly and efficient, and was the best investment we’ve ever made 🩷
I traveled to Ireland from the United States after 4.5 of infertility and expensive IUI treatments. We wanted to pursue IVF but didn’t want to pay the $35,000 dollars it would have costed here in our state. Round trip airfare (twice as we had to go back later for a frozen transfer), lodging with a friend and all the medications cost us about $12,500. So less than half of what it would be here in the U.S. Other than the timezones, it was fairly easy to manage getting monitoring in my state from a private practice OBGYN and sending those records to the doctors at Therapie. We ended up with two embryos (out of my 10 mature eggs/7 fertilized) and had a successful transfer with our first embryo. He is now a brilliant 6 month old that is already saying 3 words and nearly walking. We joke that we got a GMO baby when people think he’s older than he is (we are just a very tall family). Grateful to the team at Therapie for making our dreams come true. We love being parents, he fills our world with so much joy. With love, Max and Meagan (and Row)
