Egg donation can be used when other reproductive options have either been exhausted or are not available. We provide the needed support to patients during the process of selecting an egg donor.
There is now a great deal of logistical potential and versatility in resources when planning your family. Eggs can be donated anonymously or non-anonymously (directed). Resultant embryos can be used as fresh embryos (just fertilized and cultured) or thawed after being frozen. Embryos themselves can be derived from eggs just harvested (fresh eggs) or from frozen eggs in an egg bank (similar to a sperm bank). All options work equally well, and Chelsea Fertility NYC has success with all these options.
Why Choose Egg Donation?
Oocytes (eggs) from young, healthy women possess greater fertility potential and this potential is utilized in donor oocyte treatment. In this process, oocytes from another woman (the donor) are fertilized with sperm and the resultant embryos are placed in the recipient’s uterus.The oocytes are stimulated and retrieved from the donor using routine IVF-ET techniques.The donor may be “known” and recruited by the recipient or may be unknown to the recipient, having been recruited by Chelsea Fertility NYC or an outside donor egg agency.
We understand that choosing egg donation may carry with it a simultaneous sacrifice of hope for pregnancy with one’s own eggs or oocytes, and this can be a feeling of great loss. There are likely many characteristics you hope your oocyte donor will possess, and you probably desire that your egg donor will possess many of your own characteristics. Our IVF team will help in any way we can to assist you in selecting a donor who meets your most important expectations.
When Is an Egg Donor Recommended?
- Women who experience premature ovarian failure or diseases associated with premature ovarian failure (POF).
- Women who have undergone radiation and/or chemotherapy treatment or surgical removal of the ovaries.
- Women who carry a serious genetic disease who wish to diminish the chance that the disease will be passed on to their offspring and choose not to have PGD/PGS.
- Women whose age is sufficiently advanced so that their fertility potential is impaired significantly.
- Women who have had repeatedly poor quality embryos during previous IVF cycles.