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Egg Donation

egcEgg (oocyte) donation can help women who have undergone an early menopause or whose ovaries respond poorly to fertility medications. Egg donation is an emotional, expensive, and time-intensive experience. But it offers a realistic, successful option for many couples who would otherwise have no way to have a child.

Candidates
* Women who are good candidates for egg donation include:
* Women who have never had a spontaneous menstrual period
* Women who have stopped menstruating at an early age. This may be caused by genetics, auto-immune responses, radiation or chemotherapy, surgical removal of both ovaries, or an unknown cause
* Women who produced few or no eggs, or an elevated FSH level, in a previous in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle
* Women (usually in their 40s) who have stopped menstruating or do not respond well to fertility drugs
* Women with a follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level of 15 or more on day 3 of a Clomiphene Challenge Test. Research suggests these women will not be successful with IVF using their own eggs. Women who have had multiple IVF cycles and failed to achieve a pregnancy. One possible cause for not achieving a pregnancy is the age of the eggs.

Benefits
Experienced programs report clinical pregnancy rates of 50 percent per egg donation cycle. These success rates are better than pregnancy rates with IVF cycles using a woman's own eggs.

Egg donation has some advantages over adoption. Though the donor provides half of the genetic make-up of the embryo, the recipient controls the prenatal environment. You can control the prenatal nutrition. You experience the pregnancy from early on through childbirth and breast feeding. These experiences are not available through adoption.