What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant by Daniel Potter

Author:Daniel Potter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780738216928
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

WHY EGG DONORS DO WHAT THEY DO

Egg donors don’t see their eggs the same way recipients do. Recipient couples pore over applications looking for donors who look like them. They take great pride in finding donors with “clean” medical histories and who have no incidences of breast cancer, alcoholism, or depression.

Giving Eggs Away

Egg donors don’t see that they’re giving themselves away when they donate eggs because they envision themselves as moms later in life. While you may fear that your egg donor will come back and want your baby, that’s the same as assuming that your neighbor will take your cake just because they loaned you an egg.

But donors see their eggs as something they have that they really don’t need. Not to minimize gifting, but from a donor’s perspective, donating eggs is similar to donating blood. An egg donor knows she has an adequate supply of eggs, and if she gives a few away, she’ll still have plenty.

Egg donors are usually attractive working women or college students between the ages of 20 and 32. Sometimes money enters the picture because the process requires a shorter involvement and it can be quite lucrative. Egg donors can name their price. Agencies tend to have some criteria over pricing, which includes allowing proven donors to request higher asking prices. Keep in mind that there is no guarantee that a donor who asks for $30,000 is any better than one who requests $6,000. A donor has no guarantee that her next fertility cycle will mimic her last; each cycle is different. But if a donor knows that her eggs have already achieved pregnancy, she can ask for a higher price because she has a history of success.

Although money may be the catalyst for an egg donor, her heart typically follows. The type of donor you want is a young woman who feels that egg donation is rewarding not just on a financial level but also on an emotional one. She also needs to be mature enough to understand that her contribution may have a lifelong impact.

Making Egg Donation Affordable

One way to reduce the high cost of egg donation is to share an egg donor either with another couple or with a company that wants to freeze the unused eggs and sell those at a later date. The use of shared donors has been around for some time, but companies such as Donor Nexus (myeggdonation.com) have further refined this practice. They select donors who are likely to yield a high number of eggs. Then they match one, two, or three couples to fresh eggs from each donor. Eggs not matched to fresh cycles are frozen unfertilized and sold to couples using frozen donor eggs in the future.

In a shared donor cycle couples receive a set number of eggs that an embryologist will inject with sperm from either their partner or a donor. The number of eggs injected is usually five. This typically allows couples to have a fresh transfer of two embryos and have three left over for a frozen transfer at an unspecified date.

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