Why do many couples need an egg donors help to get pregnant?
There are a number of reasons why infertile couples need donor eggs in order to have a baby. Some women suffer form early menopause in their 20s and 30s and run out of eggs before they have their children. Others lose their ovaries as a result of surgery for severe gynecological diseases such as endometriosis, pelvic infections, or ovarian cancer. The most common use of egg donation is to treat women in their 40s who have run out of fertile eggs and are unable to get pregnant on their own. It turns out that the age of a womans eggs is the main factor that determines her fertility. A woman enjoys her peak fertility from her teens until her mid 30s . This is the time of her life when she ovulates her best and most healthy eggs. By the time a woman reaches her mid 40s she will have used up her healthy eggs. The majority of eggs that remain in her ovaries have abnormal chromosomes and are incapable of producing a healthy baby. Although a woman may run out of healthy eggs in her 40s or lose