What You Can Expect
Coordinating and facilitating egg donation cycles is our specialty and we strive for a smooth and timely cycle. After the selection of your Egg Donor, your Care Coordinator will organize your cycle to ensure success and will be continually committed to resolving any challenges that may arise in a professional and timely manner.
Step 1: Create Your FREE Account
- Set up an account to view our Egg Donor Database in the privacy of your own home.
- Work collectively with our experienced matching team OR on your own to find and select an Egg Donor to help you create your happy family.
- Please contact us if you have additional questions about a donor or would like more in depth information (additional photos, videos, or profile clarity.) We want you to be 100% confident about the Egg Donor you select.
Step 2: Connect with Our Dedicated Matching Team & Select Your Egg Donor
- Have questions? Schedule a free consultation to discuss the process, timing, fees, or donor selection.
- Once you have decided on a specific Egg Donor for your family, click on the “Inquire Now” button on the database or contact our team at Match@CreateAHappyFamily.com, to reserve the donor for your Egg Donor Cycle.
- Your total cost at Egg Donor & Surrogate Solutions will be determined and reviewed with you with complete transparency based on the Egg Donor you choose.
- Determine if you will participate in a Known/Identified or Unidentified Egg Donor Cycle.
Step 3: Officially Match with Your Egg Donor
- To finalize your selection, you will receive a retainer agreement from Egg Donor & Surrogate Solutions and will have time to review, ask any pertaining questions, and then sign and return the retainer to our office.
- Establish the third-party escrow account through SeedTrust and complete initial funding. This includes the TRANSFERABLE and/or REFUNDABLE $2,000 deposit, escrow management fee and if needed, any fees in relation to initial travel ($100-$1,000) and/or a psychological evaluation ($450-$600).
Step 4: Egg Donor’s Medical & Psychological Screening
- Once all paperwork and initial funding is received by our office, your assigned Care Coordinator will work with your clinic to schedule and complete all your Egg Donor’s initial medical and psychological screenings.
- After initial contact, this part of the process can take from 4-8 weeks depending on the amount of screening you and/or your clinic deems necessary. The initial screening can be a combination of local and traveling appointments.
- She will likely complete AMH Testing, a genetic consult, genetic testing, additional bloodwork including hormone testing, STD testing, & drug testing, an ultrasound to confirm AFC, and a psychological evaluation all depending on what your clinic feels is necessary.
- YOUR doctor will make ALL medical decisions and dictate the screening process. All doctors have a unique set of testing they feel is most desirable and we encourage you to discuss their specific screening with them.
Step 5: Egg Donor is Medically Cleared
- Your Egg Donor is medically cleared, and your physician notifies Egg Donor & Surrogate Solutions that they are confident your donor selection is a good option for you.
- This is something to celebrate because we are moving forward onto the next steps!
Step 6: Final Financial Stage
- Our agency will move forward with requesting the complete funding of the process and starting your Direct Egg Donor Agreement.
- Your full funds amount, determined in step 2 above, will be due via Wire/ACH transfer to your Escrow Account.
Step 7: Legal Contracts & Cycle Set Up
- The “Direct Egg Donor Agreement” is drafted by an attorney who represents you and specializes in Reproductive Law and is reviewed with you as well in a consultation format. This agreement outlines each parties’ responsibilities, other contact decisions of this process, and directly states your rights as parents.
- Please note, Egg Donor & Surrogate Solutions will send you a few referral options for counsel and will recommend counsel for your Egg Donor and this fee cannot be waived as this is a necessary step to protect everyone involved.
- Your clinic may create the Egg Donor’s calendar. All contracts must be completed before the Egg Donor starts medications.
Step 8: Egg Donor Medication & Retrieval
- Once the Egg Donor Agreement is signed by both parties, the Egg Donor can start injection medications. The donor will follow your clinics medication protocol for 2-5 weeks and then have the egg retrieval.
- If your Egg Donor is local, she will continue to see your Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE) through the stimulation.
- If your donor is not local, she will likely attend local monitoring appointments as ordered by your RE once on medications. Your Egg Donor will then likely be in town for 5-8 days prior to the retrieval and may stay a day or two post retrieval if deemed necessary by your clinic.
- Egg Donor & Surrogate Solutions will book all your donor’s travel and will work very hard to keep travel expenses to a minimum.
- Eggs are fertilized or frozen- your choice.
Step 9: Transfer & Positive Pregnancy
- Optional genetic testing on embryos as desired by you and/or your physician.
- Fresh or frozen embryo transfer.
- Expect to know pregnancy results 10 days post-transfer.
Step 10: Follow Up Care & Support
- Following transfer until birth, your Care Coordinator will follow up periodically to see how you are and if we can support you further.
- You have created your happy family, and we would love to hear about it!
- Our team is available in perpetuity to assist with communication with your egg donor, whether that be through the Donor Sibling Registry or a like program after the birth of a child, or via another agreed upon method of communication to answer any questions you may have.
- Our Intended Parent Facebook Group is always here as a resource to connect with other families who have experienced the same thing.
W-E S-E-R-V-E you every step of the way!
The Egg Donation process (from the selection of an egg donor until transfer) averages 4-5 months depending on the donor’s cycle and your clinic’s schedule.
