Does IVF exhaust all of a woman’s eggs?

Numerous potential eggs can be found in a woman’s ovaries. A single egg is chosen by the ovary each month during the normal ovulation cycle from a pool of 100–1,000 eggs. Atresia is a normal process of cell death that occurs in unselected eggs. The body’s normal selection process is circumvented when a woman utilises fertility medicine, allowing some of these otherwise useless eggs to develop. In one cycle, up to 20 eggs may be triggered. Thus, when a woman uses fertility medicine throughout the IVF procedure, she not only prevents the use of all of her eggs but also’ rescues’ eggs that would have otherwise developed atresia.