Giving the Gift of Life: Egg Donation Process

Participate in the egg donation process to allow women, unable to become pregnant with their own eggs, to become mothers.

The egg donation process consists of separate phases. 

The first phase is an initial screening. Initial screening consists of meeting with an egg donor agency and successfully interviewing into the program.

Once the initial screen is complete, the medical screening process begins. The medical process verifies acceptable health standards for potential egg donors.

Successfully completing initial and medical screen phases, the egg donor is input in an egg matching database for egg recipient’s selection.

Once selected, you are contacted to verify interest, and the actual egg donation process begins.

The egg donor will receive various hormones to sync her cycle with the recipient’s cycle and later to stimulate egg production. During the ovarian stimulation, the egg donor will require frequent visits to monitor egg development. Ultrasounds will monitor the egg development, and when the eggs are successfully developed, a transvaginal operation will retrieve the eggs.

Hormones to stimulate uterine lining, necessary for successful implantation of embryos in the last stage, are given to the recipient.

The egg donor’s portion of the process is completed once the retrieval of the eggs is successful.

Once retrieved, the eggs are fertilized with sperm and are incubated for three days under monitoring.

Successfully fertilized, the embryo implants into the recipient’s uterine wall.

The total egg donor process takes approximately 3 -5 weeks.