How To Choose Your Egg Donor
How To Choose Your Egg Donor
Health – Health – Health. Focus on your potential donor’s overall health and quality of life. Don’t lose faith – you can have a baby – there is a perfect egg donor in the wings who is ready and willing to come to your assist. The donor-recipient matching experts at IVF1 Match will guide you in choosing the right egg donor to help you start your family.
Egg Donor
The IVF1 Match egg donation program – established by Dr. Randy S. Morris – has revolutionized the treatment of infertility by helping 100s of women who have been unable to conceive. Today, women diagnosed as hopelessly infertile have been able to conceive and carry a baby to full term through IVF using donor eggs. IVF1 Match maintains a large database of preferential egg donors helping donors and recipient parents discover one another.Studies have shown that using quality donor eggs in conjunction with IVF is less expensive and more successful than repeated and failed IVF cycles using the intended mother’s own eggs.IVF using donor eggs was introduced over two decades ago and 1000s of hopeful parents have realized the opportunity of conceiving and carrying a baby to full-term.For the foreseeable future, IVF using donor eggs will continue to play an integral role in treating women who have been previously diagnosed as hopelessly infertility. – Dr. Randy S. Morris, Founder and Medical Director of IVF1
Candidates for IVF Using Donor Eggs
Typical recipient candidates for IVF using donor eggs are women who have been diagnosed with Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR) – poor quantity and quality of egg production – including those women experiencing:
- Premature ovarian failure, also known as early menopause
- Poor response to ovarian stimulation medications
- High day 3 follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) levels
- Very low antral follicle counts through ultrasound
- Advanced maternal age, typically after the age of 33, a woman’s ovaries will produce eggs that are progressively poorer in quality
Some other reason donor eggs are used in conjunction with IVF:
- The woman has no ovaries, but has an intact uterus
- To prevent a genetic condition from being passed on to the child
- Menopause
- Chemotherapy history
- Genetic disease history
- Multiple IVF failures
Choosing Your Egg Donor
IVF has compiled extensive information on how intended parents should research and seek an egg donor.
- It is imperative that you research potential egg donors with your life partner.
- You must collaborate on this mission together from day one.
- Selecting your egg donor will be based on the totality of the discussions you and your partner have during the process.
- Begin with a broad spectrum of characteristics selected by both you and your partner.
- Don’t be steadfast about your initial selected characteristics.
- Be advised, it is very common for people to begin with a list of preferred characteristics only to pick a donor that is completely different from their selected traits.
- A donor’s unique quality – one that hadn’t been considered – reached out to the recipient parents.
- Consume and digest all research that is available to you about the potential egg donor’s entire family.
- Remember, physical characteristics have a tendency to skip generations.
- Your future baby’s physical health – not his/her physical beauty – has overwhelmingly become today’s egg donation recipient’s focus.
- The concept of using a donor egg to conceive a child is no longer a secret or taboo and, therefore, today’s parents are selflessly unconcerned with whether or not their child resembles them physically.
Guidance for Using an Egg Donor
IVF1 Match maintains a large database of preferential egg donors helping. IVF1 Match helps donors and recipient parents discover one another. IVF1 Match is a 21st Century revolutionary program. It is the only egg donor profiling system offering and providing correspondence between anonymous donors and recipient parents.
- IVF1 Match’s high quality panel of egg donors has contributed to the unprecedented success rate of IVF treatment in conjunction using donor eggs.
- The majority of IVF1 patients using donor eggs in conjunction with IVF treatment have selected an anonymous donor recruited through IVF1 Match.
- A plentiful amount of egg donors, as well as a vast array of cultural diversity in donor participation, have contributed to the success of IVF1 Match.
At IVF1 Match, both the recipient’s and the egg donor’s identity remains confidential. All participant donors are thoroughly screened for health risks in compliance with all state and federal regulations.
Egg Donor Match Coordinator
All screening and matching facilitation will be made by IVF1 Match’s egg donor match coordinator. The coordinator’s duties entail ensuring that recipient parents review and understand the in-depth profile of any prospective donor. The coordinator will also make every good faith attempt to incorporate any special request recipients may have. An added talent of IVF1 Match’s coordinator is an in-depth knowledge of every donor profile.All egg donors at IVF1 Match are screened and qualified for selection on the basis of:
- Education
- Work Experience
- Medical History
- Reproductive History
- Family Medical History
- Sexual History
- Infectious Disease Risk
- Psychological History
- Social Habits including tobacco, alcohol, drug use
- Physical Characteristics
- Previous Egg Donor Experience
IVF Cycle Using an Egg Donor Process
- Recruitment of an egg donor through IVF1 Match
- Screening and testing of the selected egg donor
- Synchronization of the IVF Cycle between the donor and intended mother
- Stimulation of the egg donor’s ovaries through fertility medications
- Triggering ovulation of the egg donor’s matured follicles
- Retrieval of the egg donor’s eggs
- Preparation of the intended mother’s uterus for implantation
- Fertilization and culture of the egg donor’s eggs in vitro – controlled lab setting
- Transfer of quality embryo(s) into the intended mother’s uterus
- A healthy baby is carried to full term!
Preferential Egg Donor Profiles
At IVF1 Match, the ideal egg donor is a young woman between the ages of 18 and 25 who is reliable and interested in helping other women overcome their infertility. Giving the gift of life is an IVF1 Match egg donor’s primary motivation. Most of the egg donors at IVF1 match are repeat donors. These egg donors have received great satisfaction from the experience of helping others become parents.Since the creation of IVF1 Match, Dr. Randy Morris and his staff have devoted their talents and skills to matching recipients and donors. It is their passion and mission to spearhead a program offering preferential egg donor profiles. Don’t give up on your dream of having a baby – start browsing through IVF1 Match Egg Donor Profiles today. Discover more information about how to choose your egg donor by meeting with Dr. Randy Morris personally at the Naperville Fertility Center. You can also consult with Dr. Morris through a secured Infertility Video Consultation.
- To schedule a consultation, please call 630.357.6540 – or – click the icon below and download a recently published eBook by Dr. Randy Morris for more information about fertility treatment options.