Egg Donation

Risks of Having Multiple-Fetus Pregnancies and Multiple-Infant Live Births from ART Cycles Using Fresh Embryos from Donor Eggs

IVF After 45: Success Rates Using Donor Eggs

As women get older, they encounter more fertility problems. Women in their 40s and older have fewer high quality eggs, more problems conceiving children, and a higher risk of miscarriage during pregnancy. Even with IVF (in vitro fertilization) the statistics can be depressing: For women 44 and older, about 3.3 percent of IVF cycles using [...]

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Quiz – Test Your Knowledge of Egg Donation

by Abbie Waters in Become an Egg Donor, Egg Donation

Test your knowledge of egg donation with this short quiz! For more tips and advice on becoming an egg donor, check out our Beginner’s Guide to Donating Eggs.

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Egg Donors and Recipients – ABC News Wants to Hear Your Story!

by Abbie Waters in Become an Egg Donor, Egg Donation

ABC News is looking for egg donors and recipients to interview for a segment on “World News with Diane Sawyer”. If you have a story to tell and would other people to hear it, this sounds like a great opportunity. From their announcement: “World News with Diane Sawyer” is interested in the issue of egg [...]

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Donor Egg Programs – 7 Questions to Ask Before Signing Your Contract

by Abbie Waters in Egg Donation

Deciding to use a donor egg program to enlarge your family is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make. Using donor eggs brings up a host of medical, psychological, financial, and legal issues that may not arise with fertility treatments using your own eggs. You may want to speak with several donor egg [...]

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Egg Donor Centers in Boston, MA

by Abbie Waters in Egg Donation

Over the last year, several readers have emailed me asking how to find egg donor centers in Boston. I’m happy to oblige! (We have a complete list of the fertility clinics and egg donor agencies in Massachusetts too!) Boston, Massachusetts is a city with deep historical roots, beautiful architecture and more universities and colleges than [...]

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Jewish Egg Donor Programs to Help You Build Your Family

by Abbie Waters in Egg Donation

In a previous post I wrote about The Ovum Donor Registry and New York LifeSpring, two Jewish egg donation agencies that help infertile Jewish couples locate Jewish women to donate eggs. After a little more research, I found three more programs: Fertility Alternatives - Founded by Dawn T. Hunt–a former donor herself–they specialize in locating Jewish [...]

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Egg Donation Success Stories

by Abbie Waters in Egg Donation

I’ve been writing articles on this blog for a while now and apart from running some polls, I’ve not heard many readers’ experiences with egg donation. So let’s change that! What’s your egg donation success story? If you’ve successfully used an egg donor to conceive, or you have successfully donated eggs, I’d like to hear [...]

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