Egg donation is one treatment option for those who wish to have a child but are unable to use their own eggs. The eggs may be sourced from an anonymous donor or donated by a close friend or relative.
For donor egg IVF, an egg donor recipient may select an egg donor who is part on an egg donor agency. Additionally, the egg donor may be a sister, close friend, or relative of the recipient’s.
Donor egg IVF successfully treats women who are carriers of genetic diseases, women who have had multiple failed cycles of IVF, women with impaired ovarian function, or healthy older women. This IVF treatment also heightens the chance of pregnancy for women whose attempts at IVF have revealed a poor response to fertility medications or whose eggs did not fertilize well or form viable embryos.
As part of the IVF egg donation program protocol, an egg donor injects fertility medication to stimulate her ovaries to produce multiple eggs. Hormone replacement is used to synchronize the recipient to the egg donor cycle. Just prior to ovulation, using standard IVF techniques, the eggs are retrieved from the egg donor’s ovaries and fertilized with sperm from the recipient couple.
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