The First Decision you need to make is how badly you want a baby. We strongly suggest you have a long discussion with your partner and discuss both the personal and financial commitment that it takes to go through the egg donation and if needed, the surrogacy process.
Using an Egg Donor in the USA will typically cost around $16,000 for frozen donor fees for six eggs and about the same for IVF Center costs, or a total of about $32,000.
If you are willing to go to India and use an Indian Egg Donor, the cost will be around $16,000 plus travel costs to Delhi or Mumbai of about $3,000 or so for a two to three week stay.
We have both options available through our agency.
Before starting the process of choosing a donor, you need to choose a fertility clinic in the USA or Canada and get checked to ensure you are medically ready to proceed down this exciting path. Also, the clinic will prepare you for the first four to five weeks using the protocol from the clinic in India. What this means on a practical level is that your most recent blood tests and pelvic ultrasound are not more than one year old. Your chosen fertility clinic will ask you to complete a Medical Information Questionnaire, providing the results of all your most recent tests.
If you need a recommendation on an IVF Clinic to use in the USA or in India, we can give you some excellent recommendations.
The clinic will require copies of your test results (no older than 12 months), so start collecting the results ASAP and forward them directly to the clinic. Unfortunately, the clinic will not start any treatment without receiving your results first. Although clinics do vary as to which results, they require, most of them will ask you to provide copies of the following tests:
We begin by understanding your goals—whether you’re a couple, single parent, LGBTQ+ parent, or overseas intended parent. We then cover costs, timelines, and legalities and answer all your questions.
A: The short answer is around $16,000. This includes the cost of the IVF Cycle, the donor and implantation in the female intended parent.
The process is as follows.
A: Indian Egg Donors works with the top fertility clinics and doctors in India, and we will assist you to choose a clinic and doctor that is best suited for you.
A: We will ask you to complete a short info sheet so that we have your details; the clinic will ask you to complete a full medical questionnaire with all your most recent test results.
A: That is one of the best things about our donor program – We have many donors available immediately! The wait is only as long as it takes for you to find a donor who meets all your requirements. If you are a six-foot tall, Physician from Punjab and you are looking for someone exactly like you, who is your twin sister, you will have to wait a while. For anyone else, there should be one of the over 500 immediately available donors who should fit your profile.
A: Unlike some other donor programs, future parents can view full information about prospective donors, including personality and character information, family history going back two generations, education history, medical information, etc. as well as photos of the donor as a child.
A: That is an impossible thing to predict as each donor will respond individually to the stimulation protocol, and even the same donor might respond differently each time she donates. What we can tell you is that most Indian fertility clinics follow best practices and do a low, gentle stim on the donors to ensure that an optimum number of excellent quality eggs are retrieved (rather than many poor eggs) and more importantly, so that the health and wellbeing of the donor is never compromised. The average number of eggs retrieved is 12-14. However recent legislation in India has limited these to about seven.
A. No in India. Sex selection is illegal in India.
A: One or Two (depending on your preference.)
A: They will be frozen using the latest/best freezing technique.
A: Short answer: Yes, from India. However, it is often easier and cheaper to come back for a FET in India. FETs are cheap and require a much shorter stay.
A: Two to Four weeks
A: Three months. We do not hold donors for longer than three months unless there are exceptional circumstances.
A: You should only book your flight and accommodation details once the fertility clinic has issued your treatment plan. You will have tentative dates to work around, but please do not book your air ticket until the clinic says ‘go.’ (This will happen once the donor has been through all her screening appointments and blood tests)
A: In your initial discussion with the doctor and fertility sister, you will let them know when you would like to be in India – i.e., your preferred dates for your 10- 12 day stay. They will then confirm those dates with the donor, and then they will work out a treatment plan based on your chosen dates. In summary, it involves working back from your preferred dates to see when the donor should stop the pill, when her first injections start etc.
A: Depends on the donor. They donate for a variety of reasons, some for money, but mostly it is around giving back something to other people. You know how you get some people who volunteer, who recycle, who seem to genuinely care about their fellow human beings? That is the type of donor we have on our database. Genuinely amazing people. To illustrate this point, check out this email we just got from donor ‘C’: “Thanx, would it be possible to rather have the money (if chosen) donated to a charity as I’m not after this for the money?”
A: Donors are thoroughly pre-screened by the IVF Center they are sent to. Once selected, the donor will undergo a psychological assessment and a medical assessment. The psychological assessment has three main purposes: (1) that the donor is fully aware of what is involved in donating in her eggs and that she understands all the implications and risks involved, (2) that she is mentally healthy to donate and (3) that there are no known psychological disorders that would disqualify her from donating. The medical assessment must be repeated each time the donor donates to ensure that the results are current. This involves blood tests which include (but are not limited to) testing for infectious diseases including HIV I and II antibodies, RPR (Syphilis). Hepatitis B surface antigen, Hepatitis C antibodies and CMV (Cytomegalovirus) IgM. In addition, the donor will have a pelvic ultrasound to ensure that her ovaries are in an optimum state to donate.
A: While some of the information can be verified, we rely on the donor’s integrity to be honest. Because there is limited financial incentive to donate, there is also no incentive for the donors to lie about any of their information. Unless someone has a penchant for having needles jabbed in them, suffering PMS-like hormone swings, bloating, and undergoing an invasive medical procedure, it is highly unlikely that anyone would want to lie their way onto an egg donor program.
A: We provide the donor’s details and your details to the fertility clinic. The doctor will specifically check that the donor who is matched with you is the same donor you have chosen.
A: Our contract stipulates that egg donation should be anonymous, unless it is a known donor (friend or family member). This means that no contact is allowed between donor and recipient.
A: Short answer: Up to 70% of the time it does work, first time. But obviously it does not work the first time, every time. You might need to come back to do a FET, or to try again. We hope you are one of the lucky 70% for who it works the first time.
However, even with the highest success rates globally, no procedure guarantees a 100% success rate. This implies that for some individuals, the procedure may not yield results on the first attempt. It’s advisable to have a contingency plan in place if you find yourself among the unfortunate few for whom the procedure doesn’t succeed initially. A highly recommended backup option is for the male partner to provide a second sperm sample for freezing at the clinic. This ensures that if a second trip to India becomes necessary, only the female partner needs to travel, and for a much shorter duration. With the frozen sperm readily available on the day of egg retrieval, it reduces the time away from home and minimizes travel expenses. Discuss with your doctor the possibility of storing a second sample of frozen sperm at the clinic in case a second attempt is required.
In most cases, storing the extra frozen embryo is an adequate backup plan.
In terms of how the process works at the clinic, it will resemble something like this:
While we conduct thorough pre-screening of our egg donors to the best of our ability, we are not equipped to professionally assess their eligibility to donate. This responsibility falls upon qualified professionals. Each donor must undergo medical and psychological assessments as well as counseling before being deemed suitable to donate. Given that individuals’ circumstances and health may change over time, screening occurs at the time of matching. Medical assessments are required for each donation, while psychological assessments are conducted annually.
The purpose of the assessment is threefold:
During this process, a family history of mental illness/challenges may be identified. This information may not have been included in the donor’s profile because she might not have been aware of the illness/challenge when she completed the agency’s information. Alternatively, she might not have been able to provide all the necessary details about the illness/challenge when she applied to be a donor.
Should the psychologist become aware of any mental illness/challenge the donor or her immediate family has she will notify you via email. This will allow you to ask any further questions you may have.
Contact us today at (212) 392-6124. Learn more about our surrogacy program, financing options, health insurance coverage and finalize which option is best for you. Discover how we can help you achieve your dream of parenthood.
Indian Egg Donors, founded in 2006, is a large New York area, internationally oriented, physician owned surrogacy service. We focus on providing state of the art IVF and surrogacy services to Intended Parents irrespective of age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, or color, at the lowest possible cost in the world.
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