Infertile couples looking for a perfect egg donors offering huge amounts of money — $50,000 to $100,000 — are not unusual to find these days. If you open a student magazine or newspaper from an Ivy League university, and have a look at the classifieds section you can find advertisements like these quite easily. The [...]
Is there a flaw in the US egg donation system? The Chicago Tribute pointed out that documentation at egg donor agencies is often suboptimal. Many European egg donor agencies have to report to an egg donation registry that makes sure that all data is stored savely, but in the US this is not happening currently. [...]
In “The California Aggie” there is an article on female egg donation. It’s called The process behind female egg donation.
Egg donation is an increasingly popular choice for older women who have trouble conceiving a child. This is because even for totally healthy women, the older a woman gets the harder it is to conceive for her. Biology designed women to give birth at a young age, but the changes of modern society often prevent [...]
Becoming an egg donor is something that many women would like to do. The amount of money they can get for an egg donation is extremely high, specially if they meet the criteria that a certain couple is looking for. Asian couples of course want an Asian woman to donate her egg – so they’d [...]
Before you can become an Asian egg donor, you have to go through a meticulous screening process. Asian egg donors have to be of perfect health and depending on the criteria of the couple that searches for an Asian egg donor either both or at least one parent of the Asian egg donor has to [...]
Yes. When you become an Asian egg donor (or any kind of egg donor for that matter) the fact that you are donating eggs doesn’t mean that you are loosing eggs that you could otherwise keep. In fact you are only donating those eggs that you would loose anyway if you don’t become pregnant. Because [...]
This is a really interesting question, and one that is crucial for couples to become clear about. Patricia Wen wrote a great article about parents who recieved an egg donation that points out that only only about half of these parents decide to tell their child about their “genetic origins”. In the particular study that [...]
No. An egg donation is a surgical procedure, but according to current medical knowledge no part of becoming an egg donor (whether it’s the surgery or the medications) affects your own fertility in any direct way. In fact experience has shown that most women who donated eggs actually later in live give good birth – [...]
Usually egg donation (also known as oocyte donation) has a high rate of success for infertile couples that have tried other ways. However, there are some cases where egg donation is not an option. Of course you should talk about this with your doctor and this website is just to inform you about the egg [...]