1. Choose a Donor
Your fertility clinic will recommend a egg donor agency to use to pick an egg donor. Meet directly with the egg donor or learn all about her with an extensive questionnaire. The egg donor becomes prepared to donate the egg to you after you have chosen her to donate for you. You will have to prepare yourself to receive the egg when it is ready and you are ready at the same time. This may take several months to get in sync. Choose a donor who resembles yourself. Consider looks, intelligence, health, medical history and blood type. Consult your doctor to ensure the donor you have chosen meets the medical criteria you are looking for. Using an egg donor has about a 50% success rate. Avoid programs that want to charge up front fees. Only pay when you have chosen your candidate and are ready to start the process with your physician. Some egg donor clinics have premiere women to choose from. They are at a higher price, but these genes are passed on to your child. Choosing a donor is a longer process than using frozen eggs, because your cycles have to match before the fertilization takes place.
2. Share Fresh Eggs With Other Parents
If you choose to share fresh eggs with other parents, you are able to save some costs. This involves getting one woman ready to harvest eggs where two sets of parents will benefit from the procedure. Get frozen eggs from a couple who had more than they needed. This saves you costs as well. Consider looks, intelligence, health, medical history and blood type based on the information available from the egg donor.
3. Use an Egg Bank
Choose frozen eggs if you are satisfied with the pool of donors who are available. These are eggs that women have donated or eggs that other parents did not need after they had an egg donor. The frozen eggs database has the physical characteristics, intelligence level, medical and health history and blood type. Choose based on this information the eggs you want to use. Using frozen eggs has about a 30% success rate. Getting frozen eggs is faster than choosing a donor, because you don't have to wait until the recipient donates the eggs. The eggs are available as soon as you choose your recipient.
