Egg Donation

Pregnancy Success Rates Using Donor Eggs

In the United States, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) collects data from fertility clinics on their pregnancy success rates for infertility treatments such as IVF, PCG, and ICSI. In these surveys, the pregnancy success rate is defined as the percentage of a particular treatment that results in a pregnancy and live birth. Recently I [...]

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African-American Egg Donor Program Finds Black Egg Donors

by Abbie Waters in Egg Donation

As I’ve noted elsewhere, in the United States, there is a shortage of African-American egg donors (as well as Asian and Jewish egg donors). At many donor egg agencies, infertile couples looking for African-American egg donors are encouraged to place themselves on waiting lists and sign up at more than one egg donor program. No [...]

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New York Egg Donor Program Finds Jewish Egg Donors

by Abbie Waters in Egg Donation

I just finished reading this New York Magazine article about the lengths people will go to to find Jewish egg donors. I discovered that there are at least two New York egg donor programs that specialize in finding Jewish egg donors–all the way over in Israel. Why so far away? Because there are many more [...]

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Step-By-Step Procedures Used in Egg Donation, Part 2

by Abbie Waters in Become an Egg Donor, Egg Donation

This is the second article in the series Step-By-Step Procedures Used in Egg Donation. In Part 1 of this series, we learned about the first four steps of the egg donation process: Egg donor recruitment, medical and psychological screening, selection by the donor egg recipients (the aspiring parents), and writing a legal egg donation contract. [...]

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Step-By-Step Procedures Used in Egg Donation, Part 1

by Abbie Waters in Become an Egg Donor, Egg Donation

This is the first article in the series Step-By-Step Procedures Used in Egg Donation. For more in-depth information about the procedures used in egg donation, go to Part 2. I’ve found that even though many women know what an egg donor is in a general sense, they wish they knew more specifics about how to [...]

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Use of IVF with Donor Eggs Soars in United States

by Abbie Waters in Egg Donation

In 2003, more than 12,000 in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures using donor eggs were performed in the United States, resulting in more than 5,700 children born from donated eggs. That’s 10 percent more than the year before. In total, more than 115,000 children have been born in the US from using donated eggs. Female infertility [...]

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