Asian Egg Donors

Certain ethnic groups often place a high emphasis on an egg donor that matches their own genetic heritage.

For example couples from India also want an Asian Indian egg donor – sometimes they  even want an egg donor who comes from the same district or caste as their own families.

If you are trying to find an Indian egg donor – good luck. It’s not easy. There are many IPs (intended parents) who are looking just like you, but there aren’t that many egg donors available.

Some egg donation agencies specialize in finding Asian Indian egg donors. They usually charge hefty premium prices for their services, but if you want to find a matching donor fast you have the highest chances of success when you contact them.

Another option to find an Asian Indian egg donor is by traveling to India and look for one there. However, if you do so make sure that the egg donor clinics there life up to modern medical standards – there are renowned experts in India who provide high-quality service, but there are also others.

However, be aware that if you want to do this in India there is a big time commitment involved.

If you’re not in a position where you are looking for an egg donor but instead want to become an egg donor then I recommend comparing the different options that are available to you. If you are healthy, between the age of 19 – 36 years old and even have given birth to a healthy child before in your life then you are in very high demand. I’m not telling you to just go to whomever offers you the most money – but I do tell you to compare the options that are available to you and then make a balanced decision.

You don not necessarily even need to go through an egg donation agency – you can also mingle with some egg donation communities and make contacts there and get to know intended parents who might be looking for someone just like you. This way you can get to know the people who will raise the child that will come from your egg.

But if you prefer to remain anonymous that’s totally fine to. Whatever you do, always make sure that you are on the safe side. And also be aware of the fact that egg donation isn’t a “small thing” – it involved taking medication for several weeks, repeated visits to the doctors and can cause a lot of discomfort at times for you.

But in the end you can give the gift of birth to two loving people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to raise their own child – and I think this is one of the biggest rewards in the long run.

As an Asian Indian egg donor you really can help many people.

The LA Times recently wrote an article about egg donation. As many articles on egg donation that were written by people that are not in the position of an infertile couple it focuses on the rare accordance is off well for the couples that are willing to shell out a whole lot of money for a perfect egg donor. In 1999 that was a fashion photographer who was selling donor egg from fashion models for 150,000 US dollar.

The desire to conceive a healthy and genetically well equipped child is nothing that should he morally judged. It is indeed a natural instinct in human beings. Today’s technology just makes possible more advanced methods of scientifically enhancing the probabilities of a healthy child. Think about it. People spend huge amounts of money on baby care products. They won’t their children to grow up to be healthy happy and successful part of our society. Paid egg donation just starts a little earlier — kind of pre-conceptiv child care.

Of course there are also strange variations of that. An example is where their walks to requests from a couple for an egg donor that resembles a certain fashion and runway model.

An egg donor supermarket where you can choose Naomi Campbell, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein or Bill Gates eggs is a funny idea for a cartoon, but doesn’t help to raise awareness and understanding for the desire of couples to grow their family. It also doesn’t help in building a more centralized database off all available egg donors and requests for egg donors that match certain criteria.

Such a central database would not only help to facilitate faster matchmaking between egg donors and infertile couples and us reduce the waiting time enormously, it would also render unnecessary the huge amounts of money that can be consumed by the process of finding a befitting egg donor.

However, currently there is no such central database in the making. In fact in the US there isn’t even a centralized register or some kind of legislation when it comes to previous egg donations. In many European countries there are laws that egg donation agencies and egg donation clinics have to tear too. For example they have to keep records off who was in the egg donor of a certain child. This is important for medical reasons. Sometimes medical conditions arise that might be linked to a genetic predisposition. In these cases and with the advancement of science is knowing the medical history off an egg donor, even the medical history off grid estimation has taken place [keep in mind that most egg donors are very young - usually between 21 to 35 years old, and most medical conditions arise later in life].

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 donor must meet all the perfect requirements. The egg donor should be a student off an Ivy League university or be a previous student of the Ivy League university.

The woman who donates her eggs should optimally have given birth in the past. Or she should have donated eggs in the past that resulted in a successful and healthy birth. Because egg donor agencies and infertile couples are looking for a woman that has a proven track record off fertile eggs.

They egg donor is required to be off certain stature including height and weight and body mass index.

Hair and eye color should match the infertile couples hair and eye color.

Racial properties also are off major importance. For example, an Asian couple would want an Asian egg donor. A Chinese infertile couple would want a Chinese egg donor, and Indian infertile couple would want and Indian egg donor, a Japanese infertile couple would want a Japanese chose five. I think you get the gist of it.

While some of these requirements are totally valid critics like to point out that this might be the beginning of genetic engineering. Because selecting genetic properties off and egg donor is actually manipulating the genetic pool that the children of a parent will pass on to their child. People are concerned about genetic engineering want to make sure that a scenario which Aldous Huxley draw in Brave New World won’t came in reality where rich people can afford to have superior genetic genes and poor people have to accept a poor or riskier genetic pool.

However from our perspective this is not a valid argument. Rich people can go for better health care, healthier food, and better living conditions which all are beneficial for healthy children. The impact paid egg donation has is just a part of the big picture.

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. But there are cases where medical reasons make this necessary, at least morally advisable.

There was the case of the mother of a daughter that died from cancer. The daughter donated her eggs in the past, and the mother now wanted to inform the parents that her daughter donated her eggs for. But the egg donor agency did not store the records and thus there is no way of tracing this family.

Some donor agencies also won’t disclose the information, because of privacy issues.

Three large fertility clinics in the US have committed themselves to a registry comparable to these in Europen states and Australia – but on a voluntary basis. Because privacy is a major selling point of egg donor agencies, and many donors and recieving couples want a 100% guarantee of privacy.

At least 8,000 babies are born each year in the U.S. from donated eggs or embryos, according to reports from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Another reason for a registry is that women should not donate their eggs more than 6 times – but since there is no registry of donors, there is no way of ensuring this, other than trusting the donors to be honest about disclosing previous egg donations.

A way of balancing between privacy and responsability would a registry that kept the donors identity private while disclosing as much medical information as necessary.

But there are other factors that come into play to that are more nitty-gritty. For example who will be responsible of alerting families about medical conditions the donors had years after they donated eggs. And how should the egg donor agency keep track of these? This would definitely cost substantial amounts of money, require some legal paperwork and then the risk of legal liability for egg donors or egg donor agencies might arise.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-donor-registry_27mar27,0,1537338.story

In “The California Aggie” there is an article on female egg donation. It’s called The process behind female egg donation.

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 every month you are loosing eggs, your body is designed that way. Every woman is born with around 2 million eggs (ova). Most of them get lost until adolescence, about 1,8 million eggs. The remaining 200,000 eggs last you for your whole fertile life. Naturally with every menstrual circle you lose some eggs.

Usually in one egg donation treatment you only donate around 8 to 20 eggs – again, these are eggs that your body would otherwise have dispensed of anyway if you would not get pregnant.

So if you are considering to become an Asian egg donor (or any kind of egg donor for that matter) but are concerned about the long term effects of it, and whether or not it affects your capability to conceive a child later in life yourself – go ahead confident and talk to your doctors.

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 – just because the medical screening that they went through prior to becoming an egg donor assured that they are already pretty good candidates.

So Asian egg donors can be confident that they can donate their eggs without risking infertility themselves.

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 donation process in general.

Egg donation is no option for infertile couples if the problem is caused by medical issues with the uterus of the woman. If a woman has severe intrauterine adhesions, severe uterine fibroids, a tilted uterus or growths in the wall of the uterus it makes no sense to try to give birth to a child by getting an egg donated. This is because every uterus is really mainly designed to accept a fertilized egg (ovum) which becomes implanted into the endometrium. So if there is a serious problem with the uterus it makes no sense to find “a better egg”.

If a woman is not mentally stable and has serious psychological problems a reputable egg donation agency won’t accept her as a egg donation reciever. Part of an egg donation process should also always be to screen not only the egg donor, but also the egg reciever. Usually this is done by a psychiatrist.

But most women qualify to recieve an egg donation since it’s in only a few cases where there exists a medical contraindication to pregnancy.