Frozen Donor Eggs

Some women are unable to get pregnant using their own eggs (oocytes). Egg Donation is a standard fertility treatment option for patients dealing with primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), absent ovaries, genetic issues, poor response to fertility drugs, reduced ovarian reserve, or previous medical or surgical treatment. Also, embryo quality decreases with increasing age, making the use of donor eggs an attractive option for patients above the age of 40.

Our egg donation program is committed to offering the best options for patients who need donor eggs. Our aim is to help hopeful parents actualize their dream of having a baby through another woman’s wonderful gift. At the moment, we organize both fresh and frozen egg donor cycles. To find out if using donor eggs would be the right option for you, click here to schedule a consultation.

Of course, yes. At the surrogacy agency, egg donations are carried out anonymously. You, as the egg recipient, will get full information about the potential donor and her medical history together with that of her family. We think it’s important that the donor feels a connection to you and the egg donation journey so that she can be more dedicated to the process.

It’s your prerogative whether or not you choose to let others know about this, including the resulting babies. However, we suggest that you share this information with your obstetrician/gynecologist as he/she will be in charge of your care once you leave our clinic.

Unless the profile is marked with a “Coming Soon” sign all of our eggs are frozen and are available for immediate use. We can have them transferred to the clinic of your choice immediately after purchase.

There are a lot of perks that come with getting eggs from an egg bank. The egg donor has already been screened, and the eggs are already frozen. Plus, it’s cheaper to obtain eggs from an egg bank than to undergo a fresh donor cycle. Using a fresh egg donor cycle requires a lot more planning due to your cycle (or your surrogates’) having to be synchronized with that of the egg donor. There is also the risk of the donor failing the medical screening or poor quality of eggs being harvested from a fresh donor.

Yes. A lot of clinics provide some kind of genetic screening, like preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), preimplantation genetic screening (PGS), etc. If you want to do genetic testing on the embryos, then they need to be frozen until the results are out.

It usually takes a longer time to be matched with a gestational carrier than to find an egg donor. A lot of intended parents prefer to find the egg bank and egg donor to carry out the egg retrieval while still waiting to be matched with a Surrogate mother. This will give the parents peace of mind, knowing that they have frozen embryos that are ready for use when the Surrogate completes her screening. If you will be doing genetic testing on the embryos, it’s required that you have the embryos frozen until the results are known. So, you don’t have any reason to wait until you’re matched with a Surrogate mother before you purchase your egg cohort.

We get our donors in various ways! Actually, many of our donors find us. While some of our donors are referrals from a previous egg donor who has had a wonderful experience with us, others find our clinic through their own internet research or our advertisement. At the surrogacy agency, we take great pride in the qualities of the egg donors in our database.

Not all women can make egg donations. Although egg donor programs vary in the qualities they look for, certain criteria are quite general. Some rules are put in place for legal reasons, while other policies are made to raise the chances that a pregnancy will occur and that the process will be safe for the egg recipient and the donor.

At the surrogacy agency, we have an extensive approval process. Egg donors need to complete a questionnaire about her medical history, features, education, employment, and details of her previous donation cycle (if applicable). Her health history and that of her family are covered in the medical and genetic section of the questionnaire.

A lot of questions in this section are quite similar to those that will be asked about her at your fertility clinic. Donors with a history of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and alcoholism won’t be approved. Additionally, we screen applicants based on their body mass index (BMI) and only accept those whose BMI falls within the appropriate height/weight limits. Egg donors who are smokers or placed on some prescription drugs that may impact the cycle are immediately ruled out. Also, we don’t approve any donors who have had a tattoo within the previous year or have completed more than five egg donor cycles.

Yes, unless they are marked with a “Coming Soon” sign, they are all available for immediate use.

Yes, they do. At the surrogacy agency, we believe that there is an ideal donor for every parent. We work with intended parents from all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds and accept different types of egg donors. If you would like to learn more about our egg donor database or want to check profiles, click this link to schedule a consultation to talk about your options and get access to our egg donor databank to review profiles.

There are many search options available to you, like height, eye color, ethnicity, education level, etc. Additionally, one of our matching coordinators can help you look for your “perfect” donor and best match. Schedule a consultation to talk about your options and get access to our egg donor databank to review profiles.

We usually add a couple of new donors to our database every week. Although we get a lot of applications from prospective donors every day, we don’t approve donors’ profiles for viewing unless their application has been fully completed and the important documents have been submitted. The time it takes to get all the necessary information varies from one donor to another, but it usually takes some weeks from the day the applicant files her application before her profile is included in our database. That aside, we also work together with you to make sure you get your ideal donor.

There are a lot of factors that determine the cost of your egg donation cycle. These include what test you’ve already completed or still require, your insurance plan, and what service is needed depending on your fertility tests, etc. We provide consultations during which the physician can review your health history, undergo an ultrasound, and so on to come up you with more precise pricing based on your situations. You can schedule one by clicking here.

We evaluate individual benefits to know the coverage for each insurance plan. Even in situations where insurance doesn’t provide coverage, we work together with each patient to optimize the available coverage and make the expenses more affordable for them.

Thanks to recent changes in health benefits, policies, and new offerings, your insurance might cover some of the egg donation costs. 

We suggest that you talk this over with your insurance company to know more about the costs that will be covered and what you will need to pay out of pocket.

Every consultation at the surrogacy agency also includes a financial consultation following a meeting with our fertility specialist. Depending on what was talked about during the consultation, our financial coordinator will evaluate your treatment pricing options and let you know the financing options available.