Egg freezing: expensive, unpredictable and harrowing. So why is it on the increase?

Thirty-five and single, Sophia Money-Coutts is freezing her eggs. It’s painful and there’s no guarantee it will work. So why are more and more British women paying thousands to do it too?

Sophia Money-Coutts
Sophia Money-Coutts
DAN KENNEDY
The Times

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The low point was probably the evening that the needle wouldn’t go into my stomach.

It was a Sunday and I’d been injecting myself with hormones every night for a week. There was a theatre to the procedure that I’d almost come to enjoy: close my bedroom door, sit on the edge of the bed, unwrap a needle from its plastic sheath, stick it into a vial and draw the plunger back to the correct dose, pinch a fold of stomach fat, press the needle into the fat and push down. It stung, but not for long, and the sting was normally overtaken by a wave of invincibility. I’d just injected myself! Hardcore! In the unlikely event I ever found myself in an action film