Contact us today for more information. Your ovarian reserve and future fertility are unaffected. Every cycle, your ovary starts to mature 10 to 20 eggs in follicles, but usually only one of those eggs makes it all the way to ovulation. The rest are absorbed back into your body and disappear. When you donate your eggs, the final number will depend on how many follicles your ovaries naturally produce each month, as well as how your body responded to the stimulation of the fertility medication.
Several of the tests you take at the beginning of the donation process are used to help the doctor determine the right dose, so that you can donate as many mature eggs as possible from the developing follicles. Curious about your fertility after donation? Download our EBook to learn more ». When a child conceived using your eggs reaches 18 years old, they are entitled to ask Life Fertility Clinic for your identifying details and may try to trace you for medical or other reasons.
The information we will release will be that which we were given at the time of donation and may include name, date of birth, address and medical history. If we are contacted we will endeavour to let you know that we have received this request and will be releasing this information about you.
If you have donated anonymously, you may also ask us for non-identifying details about who has received your eggs and the number and gender of any children born.
Life Fertility Clinic has excellent IVF results and many families have been created thanks to our generous egg donors, but donating eggs does not always guarantee a baby. Occasionally the eggs we collect are not suitable.
There are usually some fertilised eggs that do not survive to the blastocyst 5-day stage which is the embryo stage that is put back into the uterus. On average we usually collect about 10 eggs from an egg donor, and from these there is a very good chance that there will be one or more embryos that is suitable to transfer to the recipient. After that, we wait to see if the pregnancy is successfully established.
Yes, you are welcome to donate more than once to the same recipient. You can also donate to more than one recipient but there is a limit on the number of families that can be created.
This is a requirement of our licence. For both known and anonymous egg donors, it is Life Fertility Clinic policy that all egg donors are limited wherever possible to their eggs being used to create no more than 5 families in Queensland including their own. Life Fertility Clinic keeps a record of all egg donors.
On this donor register we will record your details, any children that you have had of your own, previous donations and babies born as a result of your donation with us. This will depend of course on how many cycles you decide to undertake.
The egg collection itself is done under sedation and you will need to take a day off work for that. It is possible to negotiate exactly when treatment begins once everything is in place so that we can minimise the impact on your life. Email: donorconceptionnetwork gmail.
The Australian Donor Conception Network is a self-funding organisation run by volunteers and has been in existence since The membership is made up of people considering or using donor sperm, egg or embryos, those who already have children conceived on donor programs, adult donor offspring and donors.
Email: info access. Access is a consumer based, independent, non profit organisation committed to being a national voice in promoting the wellbeing and welfare of infertile people of all ages. The friendly and professional team at Life Fertility Clinic are keen to answer any questions about our egg donor program. If you are considering being an egg donor, this fact sheet will give you an overview of what is involved, outline some of the issues you should consider, and help you decide if egg donation is for you.
Why donate eggs? The reasons people may need your donated eggs to realise their dream of having a family include: Women who have gone through premature menopause Women whose ovaries have failed after chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment Women who have no ovaries due to malformation or surgery Women who have previously had a poor ovarian response to hormonal stimulation Women who have poor egg numbers or quality due to age or other conditions Women who want to avoid passing on a genetic disorder that they carry to their children Single men or same sex male couples who want to have their own family.
Who can be a donor? To be accepted as a donor you must: Be aged between 21 and 35 years old and preferably have completed your own family. You can be older than 35 if you are donating for friend or family member but your recipient should understand the implications of using an older donor. Once the application is returned, we can consider you for the next steps of the screening process.
Alternatively, you may call our egg donor coordinator at or email us at [email protected]. You will be asked to complete a detailed questionnaire about your background and your medical, family and personal history.
After that is complete and has been reviewed by our staff, we will call to arrange screening appointments with our psychologist and genetic counselor.
The last step in the screening process is a physical examination with a doctor and laboratory tests. The medical screening you will receive before donating is performed at no cost to you, and you may request results of all your medical tests for your own records or to give to your doctor.
Many egg donors report the positive emotional impact as an additional form of "compensation. For a detailed description, please see Egg Donation Process for Donors. The screening process generally takes a few weeks to complete. You will speak to the Egg Donor Program coordinator by phone and come into the office for a few short visits at our Mount Zion location. Once you're chosen as an egg donor, a cycle takes approximately four weeks.
During a two-week period, you'll come to the clinic about seven to 10 times for ultrasound monitoring and blood tests. These appointments generally require a to minute visit in the morning. The day that you are scheduled for the egg retrieval, you'll be at our clinic for a large portion of the day. Most donors are able to continue to work or go to school during the process.
The shots are done at home. You can do them yourself, or have a friend or family member help you. We will teach you how to mix and administer your medication in our office. As with any medical procedure, there are possible side effects and risks. Many women feel very minor or no discomfort during the donation cycle.
Others have varying symptoms that typically resolve after the egg retrieval procedure. Some donors may feel bloating, pressure, abdominal pain and swelling, breast tenderness and moodiness from the hormone medications, which will go away by the next menstrual period. Severe side effects are rare and will be discussed with you in detail by a doctor before you join the program.
You can get pregnant during the egg donation process, so we ask that you abstain from intercourse during the process. Your ovaries will become enlarged during the egg donation process. We ask you to refrain from high-impact activities such as running, mountain biking and jumping until several weeks after the egg retrieval. After approximately one month, your ovaries will return to their normal size. It's very important to avoid intercourse from the time you start the hormone medication until three weeks after your egg retrieval.
This will prevent an unwanted pregnancy and ensure the cycle goes as planned. The procedure itself doesn't have any impact on your future ability to have children. Women are born with about 2 million eggs. Each month, a group of eggs begin the maturation process, but the body selects only one egg each cycle to ovulate, while the rest are absorbed by the body.
Fertility medications "rescue" some of these excess eggs that the body would have ordinarily discarded. Although the egg donation process requires you to adhere strictly to your medication and appointment schedule, most women are able to continue with work and school without difficulty. However, you must take the medication as instructed, and on time. You must be on time for all monitoring appointments, and you must arrange for transportation to and from the egg retrieval. This means you will need to make your egg donor cycle a top priority during the few weeks that it occurs, and you may have to reschedule other events, classes or work times as necessary.
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