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Hannah Bambra Contributor October 5, 2025 — 4.00pm

Nearly three years ago, I made the decision to take my fertility into my own hands at 31 and began IVF by myself. Freezing my eggs while I was not in a relationship felt empowering – it helped me feel as though I wasn’t working to someone else’s timeline.

One of the earliest questions I had to consider after beginning the process was what I wanted to do in the event of having an excess of eggs. That is, if the retrieval was so successful that even after using the number of eggs required to start a family, there might be some left over. In Australia, there are three options for surplus eggs and embryos: destroy them, donate them to science or donate them to another person or couple.

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