subject: Educate Yourself on Egg Freezing for Pregnancy [print this page] Cryopreservation is a safe procedure that allows the woman to take her time in planning a family. The process for retrieving the eggs has been proven to be both effective and safe. The methodologies for egg freezing have decreased the likelihood of an egg being damaged during IVF and the egg freezing processes. New guidelines have made the processes, cryopreservation and IVF, safer for the woman.