How is the egg donation procedure performed?
• An appropriate egg donor is chosen by the infertile family and thoroughly screened for infectious diseases and genetically transmitted conditions. Donors are generally given some monetary compensation for completing a cycle. • Consents are signed by all parties. • The donor is stimulated with injected medications to develop multiple eggs. This allows the fertility doctor to perform an in vitro fertilization process with her eggs and the sperm of the couple. • The woman, recipient, is placed on medications that suppress her own menstrual cycle and stimulate her uterine lining. • When the donors follicles are mature, an egg aspiration procedure is performed to remove the eggs from her ovaries. The eggs are then fertilized in the laboratory with the sperm. • The embryos develop in the lab for 2-6 days. Then, an embryo transfer is completed which places the embryos in the recipients uterus where they will hopefully implant and develop to result in the successful birth of a healthy baby.
