Donor Egg

There are many reasons why women struggling with infertility require egg donation to achieve pregnancy. Advanced age, multiple failed IVF cycles, poor egg quality, low ovarian reserve, chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment and premature ovarian failure are just a few common reasons.

Whatever your medical situation might be, we understand your goal is to have a baby of your own to love for a lifetime. Our dedicated and experienced Egg Donor team will work closely with you to help make this goal a reality.

Why use DIRM’s Donor Egg Program?

• Our top-rated pregnancy rates
• Extensive donor list, locally and nationally
• We work closely with donor egg agencies to find your donor
• Dedicated donor egg team, your own personal counselor
• Minimal wait time to start a donor egg cycle
• Competitive pricing, we will match other similar donor egg program pricing
• We do anonymous, shared and known donor egg cycles

Anonymous vs. Known Donor Egg

There are several options available for the person who is interested in pregnancy with the help of using a donor egg. Occasionally, a patient may know someone who is willing to donate their eggs. When you know the donor this is considered a Known Egg Donor Cycle. For the person who does not have a friend or family member who can donate their eggs, the best option would be to consider using eggs donated anonymously to DIRM. Finally, using a donor egg agency is another option, which can provide an anonymous egg donor for fresh stimulation, frozen anonymous donor eggs, or an egg donation with the option of meeting the donor.

Our experienced and compassionate donor egg team is available to help your navigate through the process of using a donor. We can assist you with the process of using a known donor, and are also available to help you with the process of choosing an anonymous donor. Please feel free to contact us at any time with any of your questions or concerns.

Shared Donor Egg Program

The Shared Donor Egg Program is offered to provide patients a more affordable treatment cycle with egg donation. Many egg donors produce more eggs than a single recipient needs, and this can result in many frozen or discarded eggs or embryos. Also, the cost of a donor egg cycle is expensive, which makes it too costly for many couples who opt to use a donor.

Donor Selection for a Shared Cycle

At DIRM, you may choose from an extensive list of anonymous donors who work directly with our office to provide our patients the opportunity to use local donors. The recipient who chooses the donor first is given the first priority and thus is the primary recipient. If a donor is selected, and DIRM is not able to find another recipient within six weeks, the primary recipient will have the option to proceed with a cycle at full cost or release the egg donor.

Cycle Logistics for a Shared Cycle

Once a donor is chosen and your cycle is synchronized for a fresh stimulated cycle, the donor will need to receive self administered medications to stimulate her ovaries to recruit available eggs. These self administered medications are usually given over a period of 9-11 days, during which time the donor is monitored closely with hormone levels and ultrasound to watch the progress and development of the eggs. If it appears that fewer than 12 eggs will be retrieved, the secondary recipient will be notified of a possible cycle cancellation.

The donor's eggs will be split between two recipients equally; with each recipient receiving at least 5 mature eggs. If there are an odd number of mature eggs, the primary recipient will receive the extra egg. If there are insufficient mature eggs to allow for 5 mature eggs to each recipient, the primary recipient has the priority to receive the total number of eggs. The secondary recipient’s cycle would then be cancelled. In this situation, the secondary recipient will be responsible for only the cost incurred for their cycle medications up until the cycle is cancelled.

Potential Benefits

The primary advantage of the shared donor egg program is the reduced price for a donor IVF cycle. For those recipients who hope to have one or two children through egg donation, the shared donor egg program offers a great chance to achieve this goal at a much lower cost than traditional donor IVF. In turn, for those recipients who wish to have one child through egg donation, another advantage is the lower probability of having multiple embryos cryopreserved. This would reduce the number of recipients faced with the sometimes difficult decision regarding disposition of any remaining embryos.