Advice About Being an Egg Donor While a woman can become pregnant until she reaches menopause, science has shown that the quantity and quality of a woman’s available eggs decrease with age. Therefore, as women progress through their later 30s and 40s, it becomes more difficult to become pregnant. Egg donation offers a solution to… Read more »
Why Donor Egg Success Rates Are So High
The science involved with using a donor egg for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is complex. However, Family Creations carefully tracks the data for donor egg success rates so that we can better provide intended parents with a reasonable expectation of how many donor egg cycles they may need before success. Success rates should be broken down… Read more »
Embryo Donation
Fertility guidelines from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) limit the number of embryos that can be created and transferred. Depending on the age and conditions of the egg donor and recipient, ASRM recommends that 1-3 embryos be transferred at a time. During fertility treatments, it’s typical for extra embryos to be frozen for… Read more »
Money isn’t Everything
Let’s face it, egg donors are paid well. Through egg donation, women can earn a pretty penny. Many companies generously compensate egg donors an average of $7,000 for the first egg donation and this amount often increases for each subsequent successful donation. The truth is, we would like our egg donors to be just as… Read more »