Egg Donors

We sincerely thank you for considering our egg donation program. Egg donation provides the gift of life to those who could not otherwise have children without this opportunity. Egg Donors provide an incredible service; therefore, our Egg Donors are well compensated in recognition of their time, inconvenience, and outpatient medical procedures they must undergo. Many couples who want to have children find it difficult or impossible to conceive. Using special techniques, some couples can conceive using their own eggs and sperm. Others must use sperm donated from another man. More recently, egg donation has allowed some women, whose ovaries do not produce enough healthy eggs, to become pregnant using donated eggs.

Reasons for needing an egg donor vary but include the following:

• Some women are born without ovaries or other reproductive organs or they have been damaged due to disease or have been surgically removed

• Some women have had cancer or chemotherapy causing infertility
  
  
• Early onset of menopause which can occur in women as early as their 20’s
  
  
• Waiting until later in life to start a family

Egg donors mostly make this decision because they genuinely want to help others. In return, Egg Donors receive compensation that can help them to realize their own dreams. Perhaps those dreams involve paying tuition for school, paying down credit card debt, saving for that dream vacation or new home. Whatever your dream is, egg donation may be the most incredible opportunity that you have ever had to help others while being well compensated in return. Please read on to find out more about becoming an Egg Donor!

You will notice that age is a factor. The reasons for this are that we need to ensure that egg donors are entering into this decision when they are considered to be adults and when they are able to make this decision knowingly; therefore, we have set 21 as the minimum age.  We do consider younger women on a case by case basis but not younger than 19 years of age. The maximum age for egg donors in our program is 32 years of age. The upper limit reflects the time in their lives when women respond best to fertility drugs.
Egg Donor checklist:

• You must be between the ages of 21 and 32.
  
  
• You can be on the pill
  
  
• You can have your tubes tied
  
  
• You cannot smoke
  
  
• You are within 5 pounds of having a body mass index of 19-25% (click here to calculate your bmi)
  
  
• You cannot be on Depo-Provera
  
  
• You must be in good health. You CAN have allergies or mild asthma
  
  
• You can wear glasses
  
  
• You should not be taking any anti-depressant or anti-anxiety medicine
  
  
• You should be able and willing to share a great deal of information about yourself, your personality, your family history, provide photographs and possibly videos so that families who may choose to use your eggs have as much information about you as possible since your genetic material may result in the birth of a child they will parent
  
  
• You should not have a history of serious genetic diseases (e.g., epilepsy, manic
  depression, hemophilia) in your immediate family (siblings, parents, grandparents)
  
  
• Some diseases are normal for elderly people such as heart conditions, pneumonia, cancer and may be caused by lifestyle such as smoking causing lung cancer. Such family history is usually acceptable
  
  
• You should not have been incarcerated.
  
  
• You need to have knowledge of your parents and your grandparents
  
  
• You cannot have been exposed to HIV or Hepatitis C. You cannot have any sexually transmitted diseases
  
  
• You should have normal menstrual periods
  
  
• You need reliable transportation
  
  
• You will agree to complete a police background check
  
  
• You are committed to the process which will require traveling to and from the fertility clinic for monitoring (blood tests and ultrasounds) and retrieval as well as taking numerous injections on a strict schedule. Appointments are generally early in the morning.
  
  
• You are very dependable.
  
  
• If you have been adopted and do not have detailed medical and psychological information about your parents, grandparents, and siblings, you will not be a good candidate for egg donation

If you think you would like more information, please visit our frequently asked questions page or check out more information on the process. If you think you meet our qualifications and would like to become an egg donor, feel free to contact us and we can send an egg donor package to you and also spend some time either visiting with you personally or on the phone to answer your questions.