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Egg DonorsBecoming an egg donor means that you are giving another woman the opportunity to achieve pregnancy, experience childbirth, and realize her dream of building a family. Egg donation can be the answer for women who have unsuccessfully tried other infertility procedures or for women who were born without ovaries, whose ovaries have been removed, or whose ovaries may have been may have been damaged by radiation or chemotherapy. Donors may be anonymous or they may be known. Anonymous donors are recruited from local communities, are carefully screened, and their identities remain anonymous throughout the entire donor process. Known donors may be a family member, relative, or friend of the recipient. The Egg Donation Process Once a woman has been accepted as an egg donor, she will take a series of fertility drugs (some of which must be injected) to stimulate her ovaries to produce many eggs at one time. While using the drugs, she will be scheduled for several medical tests (blood tests and ultrasounds), and after her eggs have matured they will be removed using a needle and ultrasound probe. The eggs will be fertilized with sperm from the intended father or a sperm donor in our state of the art embryology laboratory and will incubate for two to five days. A number of the fertilized embryos will then be transferred to the recipient’s uterus and a pregnancy test will be performed 9 to 12 days after the transfer. Are You an Egg Donor Candidate? If you are a healthy woman between the ages of 21 and 32 and are willing to undergo a screening process which includes extensive genetic and infectious disease screening, a thorough physical examination and a psychological assessment by our program counselor, please contact us at: Yale Fertility Center We look forward to hearing from you. To be considered as a donor, please submit the online form or you can call us, print, complete, and mail the Screening Questionnaire available here.
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