Egg Donation

Egg Donation

The reason I decided to choose this topic was I had not heard of this or what is was about. What is egg donation? What does this procedure in tell? When did they discover this procedure? What are the benefits and censures of egg donation? These are some of the things that I plan on trying to discuss and educate other people about!!

Egg donation is explained as the process by which a woman provides one or several (usually 10-15) eggs (ova oocytes) for purpose of assisted reproduction or biomedical research. For assisted reproduction purposes, egg donation involves the process of in-vitro fertilization as the egg is fertilized in the laboratory. Once the eggs have been obtained the role of the egg donor is complete. (Becoming An Egg Donor)

The first procedure of egg donation was successfully done in July 1983 and was successfully in conserving a child on February 3 1984 this was done at Harbor UCLA medical center under the direction of Dr. John Buster at the university of California at los angles school of medicine.

Some requirements to become an egg donor are as followed: are between the age of 21-29, have regularly periods, no reproductive disorders, must be physically and emotionally healthy, BMI under 29, Be a nonsmoker, not currently on Depo-Provera, willing to undergo medical and physical evaluation, willing to take injectable medications, and must be willing to commit to the process for a minimum of 6 months. ( Donor Program)

The procedure for a donor itself in tells that the donor is required to undergo a medical examination, (including a pelvic exam, blood draw to check hormone levels and to test for any infectious disease an ultrasound of her ovaries and pelvic organs), in addition the donor is required to see a psychologist to see if she is mentally prepared to undertake and complete the donor process safely and successfully. (Donor Program) There are many reasons that egg donation is around it can help couples who can't conceive a child for examples are: Gay couples, women who are infertile, onset of early menopause in women which could happen as early as mid-30's, even some women are born without the reproductive organs to conceive a child, or possibility that there was a diseases that caused the recipient damage to her reproductive organs. After the screening and the contract is signed, and the donor has passed all the requirements she is then able to begin the donor cycle, this usually takes in between 3 and 6 weeks. The donor and the recipient are both but on birth control pills to synchronize their cycles, while doing this the donor will be given injections on a daily basics of 1 to 3 weeks, the FSH (follicle-stimulating hormones) is given to the donor to stimulate egg production and increases the number of mature egg that can be harvested from the donor. At app. 36 hours before retrieval the donor must administer one last injection of HCG, the egg retrieval procedure is minimally invasive that last around 20m to 30 minutes which is performed under sedation. The doctor inserts a small ultrasound needle is inserted through the vagina to aspirate both ovaries, which extracts the eggs.

Over the past 25 years there has been ground breaking research since the intimal birth announcement in 1984, there has been a recorded 47,000 live births resulting from donor embryo transfer which has been over seen by the