Egg donation is the process by which an egg is taken from a female donor for her future reproductive use.
Let’s discuss what the consequences are and what is really important about egg donation. There are two main aspects to this issue:
- Physiological safety.
- The ethical and moral consequences.
Basically, a woman can decide to do this procedure because of two factors:
- To help, needy people who have failures in the body, to become a full family;
- The side of financial incentives. Payment is due for each donation of donor cells.
Requirements for a Donor
Becoming an oocyte donor is not easy, there are a lot of requirements to meet:
- Maximum age of no more than 32 years old;
- The donor must have at least one healthy child of their own;
- Must be free of psychological and physical abnormalities, and even more so, diseases at the genetic level;
- Not to exceed weight parameters;
- Consent to all types of medical checks.
In addition to the above requirements, the possible donor must provide basic information about himself/herself: weight, Rh factor/blood group, eye color and cut, hair color, and type, body shape, nose, etc.
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The process of obtaining material from a donor
Nowadays the egg donation process is simple and completely safe. A female donor need not worry, the whole process is automatic and takes place in stages:
First, a full health check of the donor is performed.
Then both donor and recipient’s menstrual cycles are achieved with the help of drugs. This method is skipped if the eggs will be stored in a cryobank.
In order to collect, at one time, several variants of donor material, ovulation is stimulated.
A special needle is used to take the cells from the vaginal area, always under the video control of ultrasound. The process itself is painless, carried out under anesthesia. This procedure takes about 30 minutes.
At the end of the procedure, the donor is monitored for 2-4 hours.
Frequent Concerns
A large number of women who consider this technique wonder what the consequences may be for the egg donor and how it will affect the body as a whole. Most often, there are no consequences for the donor at all.
If we talk about potential concerns, here’s a list of the most common:
- Possible, rejection of the hormones that are injected into the body to initiate ovulation. The hormone injection process lasts for 2 weeks, and in such a short period of time, does not bring negative consequences to the donor.
- An increase in the weight of the female donor. These consequences are when the body takes hormone supplements. Extremely rarely, such moments did occur, but they are short-lived because the procedure of taking hormones is short-lived.
- The fear of not being able to have any more children. Egg harvesting has no effect on a healthy donor’s ability to have children of their own in the future.
- Headaches, mood swings, edema – these are symptoms that may occur, but they are not frequent and are completely reversible.
