What is Egg Donation?

In egg donation, eggs are borrowed from a young woman called the donor, with her consent. These eggs are then fertilized with the sperms of the husband of the recipient woman and the resultant embryo, is inserted into the womb of the recipient. The success rate of this procedure is in the region of 50-60%. Many women till the age of 50-55 have become pregnant by this technique and DELHI-IVF helped US doctor for 55 year old women to get pregnant. This is probably the oldest woman to have become pregnant, in India.

Who need Egg Donation?

Due to life style and late marriage now women after 35 have less chncs and have poor overian responce and they some time do not have capacity to carry the pregnance. Women who are more than 37-40 years of age then resort to treatment of infertility by their gynecologist. If they still do not become pregnant they take help of newer technologies like IVF - In Vitro Fertilization (test-tube baby) or ICSI - Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection.

Women after the age of 40 tend to have fewer eggs in their ovaries or the quality of the eggs they produce may be poor. Thus, even new technologies like IVF and ICSI may not ensure a successful pregnancy.

In India, preference is given to younger couples to adopt children. Couples over the age of 45 can adopt, but find it difficult to do so, because of Governmental preference for younger parents. Such couples can tremendously benefit by egg donation. Women who have had multiple cycles of test-tube baby (IVF or ICSI) and have still failed to conceive and become pregnant.

Besides elderly or menopausal women, egg donation can be done in younger women whose ovaries have prematurely failed or in young women who have undergone radiation or chemotherapy for cancer. Radiation or chemotherapy destroys the eggs and hence these women have a failure of their ovaries. Egg donation is also used in patients who are carrying major chromosomal defects so that they do not pass the genetic defect to their children. Patients suffering from severe Tuberculosis and severe Endometriosis may also produce poor quality eggs and hence can be treated by egg donation.

Fear of baby may not look like parents:

Normally donor are screened on the basis of recipient physical lookout. Eggs are borrowed from healthy women less than 30-35 years of age and who are not suffering from any illness or genetic disorders. These young women, also called donors, are specially screened for AIDS and Hepatitis.

How is the procedure done?

During egg donation, the donor is given injections to produce many eggs. When these eggs are ripe, she is given a short anesthesia and the eggs are removed from inside the vagina without giving a cut on the abdomen. The donor can return home three to four hours' after the procedure. The eggs are then fertilized with the recipient's husband's sperms in the laboratory, either by IVF or ICSI and kept in the incubator for two days.

Incase the recipient's husband's sperm is of poor quality; the eggs can be fertilized by the technique of Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). Two days later, a four-celled embryo is formed. Three days later, a eight-celled embryo is formed or five days later a multi-celled Blastocyst is formed. This embryo (small baby) is then transferred back to the womb either at the four cell, eight cell or the Blastocyst stage.

50% to 60% of such women will become pregnant. Incase they fail to become pregnant they can have a repeat egg donation cycle. Many women undergo two to four cycles and achieve their goal of a child.

If you cannot organise your own egg donor, we will be happy to do so for you. We will be happy to help you find an egg donor. We have many healthy young fertile Indian women ( all of whom are less than 30 years of age , have been medically tested for their fertility ; and screened for infectious diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS ) on our egg donor panel, who have been fully evaluated . I select all our egg donors and screen them personally. The egg donor is superovulated exclusively for you, ensuring a high success rate. Egg donation in our clinic is anonymous and confidential - we do not do any egg sharing. We do not provide photos of our donors, as we need to protect their identity. I will select the best egg donor for you, by matching your physical traits.

What we check before egg donation treatment:

We can provide info of our egg donors like:

We also check for

any diseases in the family eg diabetes, etc. Parents Siblings, Past pregnancies, Abortions, Miscarriages etc.

Egg donation in our clinic is anonymous and confidential, and we protect your identity as well as that of the egg donor.

We are always looking for healthy young women who would like to donate their eggs. For more information on how you can become an egg donor, please Email us or call.

Our donors are proven fertile. They are between 25 to 35 year age. We try to match the physical characteristics and I.Q levels. They are well educated ladies. Most of them do i for financial/emotional resons.

Some of our donors:

1>> Mrs. M. S.

Age 28
Qualification : Graduate
5'3", Black eye, black hair.
No illness, blood pressure etc.

2>> Mrs. T. L. S.

Age 27
Qualification : B.Ed
5'4", Brown eye, black hair.
Was working till last year. Healthy and fit.

3>> Mrs. D. N.

Age 28
Qualification : B.Com
5'1", Black eye, black hair.
Healthy with No illness, blood pressure etc.
Did worked as Manger.

4>> Mrs. N. G.

Age 30
Qualification : Diploma Fashion.
5'5", Normal brown eye, Dark blackish brown hair.
Healthy with No illness.

Egg donation Article:

Delhiiets- donating eggs, sperm for money'

June 11, 2004 15:56 IST

Enterprising youths in Mumbai and Delhi have found a new way to make extra pocket money -- selling sperm and eggs, a report said on Friday.
Infertility clinic advertisements offering generous payments for donations of eggs and sperm are attracting many men and women in their twenties, the Asian Age newspaper said.

One such advert, from the Centre for Human Reproduction, reads: "Donating eggs will not harm your future fertility or affect your health. We will be happy to pay generously for your generosity."

Such calls were drawing college students and young professionals to infertility clinics, which report four to five calls a day from donors, the paper said.

Full article at : http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/11egg.htm