Egg Donation

For many couples, the dream of having a child is not easily realized. There are numerous causes of infertility that can interfere with the conception of a healthy baby. While standard IVF treatment can often help couples overcome many of these obstacles, the procedure can only succeed if the woman has an available supply of good-quality eggs. For some women, infertility is a result of poor egg quality or ovarian function, surgical removal of ovaries due to chemotherapy, or genetic issues. For these women, the use of donor eggs becomes an excellent option when exploring treatments that will lead to the conception of a child. Egg donation is always used in combination with IVF treatment.

The egg donation process involves a donor selected by the recipient couple, either known or anonymous, who will go through ovulation induction to produce multiple eggs. The eggs are retrieved from the donor and fertilized with the recipient's partner's sperm and the embryos are then transferred to the recipient. It is important to understand the role of each participant, the donor, recipient and recipient's partner, when exploring the option of donor eggs as fertility treatment.
Egg donation has become a very successful treatment option. Often times, the IVF pregnancy success rates using egg donors surpass the traditional IVF pregnancy rates because the results reflect outcomes of using healthy eggs donated by young women, overcoming the cause of infertility in the recipient.