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Infertility Egg Donation Program

SUE, RN, NURSING MANAGER: When deciding to be an egg donor recipient, there are multiple things you must consider. We will guide you through that process. We have a donor pool here of young, healthy women that are 21 to 32 years of age, who’ve been thoroughly screened both psychologically and physically to make sure that they are healthy and capable of producing eggs for you.

Our program is completely anonymous. You will not know who is donating the eggs to you, nor will they know anything about you other than the fact that you’ve had a long history of infertility. These young women are here to help make your dreams come true

Posted on August 4, 2008 2:33PM in Egg Donor Program, Video Transcripts

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Egg Donor Screening Process

SUE, RN, NURSING MANAGER: In order to become an egg donor, you’re going to need to complete three applications which are on our Website: the Prescreening Application; an FDA questionnaire, which is going to include all of your medical and health history; and the third application is the Non-Identifying Information which will provide us with your complete medical history along with the medical history of the two generations on both your mother and father’s side.

Please be as thorough as possible and give us the most detailed information concerning the medical histories of your family members.
Once this application has been submitted and reviewed, you will then be contacted to begin the egg screening process.

Posted on August 4, 2008 2:32PM in Egg Donor Program, Video Transcripts

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Infertility Egg Donation Candidates

SUE, RN, NURSING MANAGER: Once your application has been reviewed and you’ve been contacted to begin the screening process, you will then be asked to come in for a simple blood draw, which is going to look at your hormone levels and tell us your functioning capacity of your ovaries, so that we know that you’re able to provide eggs to our recipients.

This is done in the early part of a menstrual cycle. You will be asked not to have birth control the month before we take these hormone levels.

If these hormone levels are in an acceptable range, you will then be contacted again to return to our office for a full medical examination by our physician and also an interview again with our donor egg coordinator.

During this process, you will be interviewed and asked questions concerning your application medical history. You will also then receive a full medical examination which will include a vaginal ultrasound.

After this process, you will then again meet with the doctor who will explain, in detail, the donor process and will tell you the risks and the benefits of becoming an egg donor.

Once you’ve completed that process, you will then be sent off to do infectious disease blood testing. It’s a simple blood test and you will also be asked to leave a urine sample.

Once those test results come back you’ll be contacted to do the final step of the process, which is meeting with our psychologist. You will meet with a psychologist who will not psychoanalyze you but will discuss with you so you have a full understanding of what the egg donation process is and that you are feeling very comfortable in your decision to become an egg donor.

Posted on August 4, 2008 2:28PM in Egg Donor Program, Video Transcripts

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Egg Donation Selection

SUE, RN, NURSING MANAGER: The first step in the process of egg donation for you is to be to pick out a donor. This is probably the longest part of the actual egg donation process. The actual treatment process will take approximately one to two months. The selection of the appropriate egg donor for you may take as short as a couple of weeks up until several months to find the appropriate donor for you.

You will be presented a variety of egg donors based upon your physical characteristics along with your ethnic background. Once you have decided which egg donor is best for you, the overall process will take probably one to two months to synchronize your cycles and the egg donor to go through the IVF process.

Hopefully, at the end of that time, you will have achieved a pregnancy.

Posted on August 4, 2008 2:19PM in Egg Donor Program, Video Transcripts

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