Egg Donation is also called Oocyte Donation or Ovum Donation. At Our center we cqn perform IVF Tretment using donor oocytes procurured from Registred Oocyte Banks who carefuly select the donoers after their through investigation. Egg Donation Programme is Anonymous that means you will never get to see the donor and neither the donor will know for whom her eggs were used.

Reasons for opting for Egg Donation:

Basically egg donation is a very attractive practical approach for women who either cannot produce their own eggs, for example women who have attained menopause including those with premature menopause or for example those whose ovaries have been removed surgically or those whose ovaries have been rendered defunct due to radiation or chemotherapy. It is also the treatment option for those women who cannot produce ‘ good quality’ oocytes ( eggs ) , for example, women with severe endometriosis, or those with severe polycystic ovaries . Thus, following are some of the reasons for selecting the option of egg donation:-

• 1) Women with premature ovarian failure ( menopause)
• 2) Women who have attained timely menopause but stii desire to have children
• 3) Women who have undergone bilateral oophorectomy
• 4) Women with poor response to ovarian stimulation
• 5) Women with poor ovarian reserve as judged by – significantly elevated follicle stimulating hormone ( FSH ) and very low Anti-mullerian hormone ( AMH ) and very low day 2 antral follicle count
• 6) Advanced maternal age, above 38 years
• 7) Women with high levels of Anti-ovarian, Anti-thyroglobulin ,and Anti-microsomal thyroid antibodies
• 8) Women who produce poor quality eggs .for example, those with severe endometriosis, or those with severe polycystic ovaries. Obviously, egg donation is the only option for a single man wanting to start a family.

Why is egg donation advantageous to some situations?

Egg Donation is one of the option of building up your family when it is not possible to get you own eggs or your eggs are of poor quality, poor ovarian reserve or those with repeated IVF failures or those whose embryos are of poor quality or for various reasons mentioned in the previous module.

Although it is true that the baby will not have any genetic connection with the commissioning woman, many women are happy to choose this option because:

• 1) She feels a true sense of motherhood, as she experiences all the symptoms of pregnancy, experiences labour pains and even lactates after delivery
• 2) Process of egg donation has a high success rate—about 60% per cycle
• 3) As the egg donation is anonymous and confidential process there are no social pressures involved
• 4) It is the name of the commissioning mother that appears on the baby’s birth certificate

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