Egg donation is the process by which a women donates eggs to enable another women to conceive as a part of an assisted reproduction treatment.
Female Egg Donation is a unique way of giving happiness to a woman who is unable to become a mother due to egg related issues.
Just as Vicky Donor, who inspired the boys to donate semen, there is need to increase awareness of female egg donation in community.
However, due to a lack of complete knowledge of this, aspiring mothers and donors have to face multiple problems. There are legal and ethical issues as well.
Therefore, all women should be given full information about female egg donation so that they can take proper decision with regards to egg donation.Because of various legal and ethical issues along with lack of awareness among community about egg donation, we have tried writing this article.
If you want to become an egg donor, then you should take care of the following:
You must be between 21 and 35 years old
What are Pros and Cons of Egg donation?
Benefits to Donor
1. Detailed health screening
2. Remuneration
3. You get chance to help needy female
4. You can preserve your own eggs if you wish
How many times donors can donate sperms?
Benefits to recipient
1. It offers a healthy pregnancy
2. You can choose a bio-similar donor
3. Flexibility of process
4. Chance to achieve pregnancy goal faster.
Cons of Egg donation
1. Expensive
2. Legal issues
3. Psychological concerns after pregnancy of not having own child
4. Chances of failure
Except in cases of full tubal blockage, IVF is never the initial step in the treatment of infertility. It’s only used in circumstances where other treatments have failed, such as fertility medicines, or surgery.
What are the side effects of female egg donation?
Like any other medical procedure, even Egg donation is not without risk but risk is limited.
Following are side effects or risks of egg donations,
1. Pain or redness at injection site
2. Allergic reaction to drugs given during cycle
3. Side effects of fertility drugs are- Weight gain, bloating, headache, mood changes and rarely risk of Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.
4. Pain in abdomen after egg donation
5. Bleeding into abdomen
6. Minimal discomfort during ultrasound examination
7. Psychological distress
8. Potential long term effects- not many.
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Schedule a consultation appointment.
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Except in cases of full tubal blockage, IVF is never the initial step in the treatment of infertility. It’s only used in circumstances where other treatments have failed, such as fertility medicines, or surgery.
The following steps are involved in the female egg donation,
Step 1: Screening of egg donors is crucial step in egg donation process. It is done in stepwise manner starting with detailed history, followed by examination, ultrasonography of abdomen and then various blood tests, genetic tests and ends psychological analysis of egg donors. Doctors make sure that all egg donors are healthy in all aspects before they donate eggs. Once the donor is finalized, her cycle is matched with patient’s cycle.
Step 2: Synchronization with the Resident Cycle. In this phase, the egg donor is given contraceptive drugs on the third day of her menstrual cycle(menstrual cycle) to keep her hormones and ovaries functioning.
Step-3: Supersession of the Cycle is done to prevent ovulation on its own in donors. If they ovulate on their own, doctors won’t get eggs for IVF.
Step-4: Stimulation of donors ovaries to produce more follicles(eggs) is done various injections. Even these injections improve quality of follicles and increase its quantity.
Step-5: Retrieval of Eggs after giving sedation or general anaesthesia is done in IVF Operation Theater after taking maximum sterile precautions. It’s done with the help of wide bore needle and specialized suction pump. Needle is inserted per vaginally and thus retrieved eggs are immediately transferred in culture media and for analysis in IVF laboratory. All good, matured eggs are fertilized by IVF procedure or by ICSI procedure.
Step-6:Follow-up of donor is important to prevent any untoward effect. Donors are kept in hospital for few hours for observation and then discharged after few specific instruction.
What are Ethical Issues?
Third party reproduction via IVF with donor eggs, has various ethical issues including conflict of interest between agents, donor and recipient. Detailed informed consent and counselling of donor is crucial to prevent problems. It is said that only a woman can understand the sorrow of a woman in the best way. Therefore, if you are a healthy woman, you should donate or encourage other womens to donate eggs if someone needs it. Your one Egg Donation can change life of a family to great extent.