Many people assume that once their eggs are in a particular clinic’s freezer, that’s where they’ll have to stay. That assumption causes unnecessary stress, especially when something stops feeling right:  the costs creep up, the communication tails off, you move cities, or you start thinking about treatment somewhere else.

You’ve been through the injections, the scans, the retrieval. Your eggs are out. And then, silence. Most clinics will tell you how many eggs they froze, but far fewer walk you through what actually happens next: what your eggs are sitting in, who is watching the tank, and what we know about how they hold up over time.