Asian Egg Donors

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].

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.

Asian egg donors are in high demand. In the last 20 years egg donation has gotten much more common and people from all nations and continents are trying to conceive. Approximately 10,000 surrogate children are born every year now.

In general if after having tried for more than 12 months to induce a pregnancy many couples think about infertility treatments. A common one is egg donation – with a very high success rate of around 50%!

IVF (In vitro fertilization) is a good choice for many couples, because it allowes to conceive children that are genetically much more similar than many other choices. The mother still experiences the pregnancy and the main difference really is that it is another woman’s egg that is being fertilised by sperm outside the woman’s womb and than implanted into the woman’s womb. So the woman still goes through a whole pregnancy circle.

But why are Asian egg donors in high demand? Well, it’s easy to understand that Asian parents who actually want to give go through a whole pregnancy and give birth to their child want to have a similar genetic layout from their egg donor. Often, Asian parents (as well as other parents) don’t want everybody to know that they needed an egg donor to conceive. So a caucasian, European egg-donor would obviously leave “traces” – the face of the child would resemble a European. Whereas an Asian egg donor obviously fits right in – the baby would have the same ethnic origin like it’s parents.

So there’s a high demand in Asian egg donors, that’s why there are agencies who specialize in finding the right Asian egg donor. Many parents have very specific criteria that they look for (for example the egg donor should be nonsmoking, of good health, and should have a certain education, like college or university degree).
Asian egg donor agencies can command high fees for their services because parents are willing to pay a premium when it comes to such an important undertaking.