About Our Donors

While they are reimbursed for their time and effort, most women's decision to become a donor is born of a desire to help another woman and her partner achieve their dream of parenthood. The majority of egg donor cycles performed at Shady Grove Fertility are anonymous. Our anonymous donors come to us through various sources, mostly through word-of-mouth referrals from our current and past donors. Every potential donor undergoes an intensive medical and psychological screening process before she is accepted into our program.

Donor Candidates

Any woman between the ages of 21-31 who is healthy and has a healthy family history may be initially considered for egg donation. All egg donor candidates must complete a medical history and genetic questionnaire that is reviewed by our staff. View our Donor Screeing Process.

Donor Recruitment

Shady Grove Fertility staff personally recruits, screens, and matches nearly all of the egg donors in our anonymous donor program. Hands on management of the egg donor recruitment is mutually benefitial to the donor and patient. The process allows us to:

• Manage egg donor compensation - a cost paid for by the recipient.
• Use local donors to eliminate out of pocket travel and related expenses.
• Eliminate miscommunication caused by 3rd party coordination.
• Offer donors and recipients confidence and peace of mind

The Donor Database

We are continually recruiting potential donors and matching qualified donors with recipients. We have a large number of egg donors to select; including donors of various ethnicities.

Choosing Your Donor Option

• Anonymous Donor: Most women opt to undergo the egg donation process as anonymous donors. Their identity remains anonymous through out the whole donor process. The majority of women who donate their eggs anonymously are "recruited" donors.
• Shared Anonymous Donor: These are Anonymous Donors who have previously donated their eggs. They produced a high number of good quality eggs. The previous recipient had a successful cycle and or has embryos cryo-preserved. Because of their previous successful cycle, we will choose to "share" this donor between two anonymous recipients. This option not only gives each recipient an equal chance of success in achieving pregnancy, it also means sharing the financial responsibility with the other recipient couple.
• Known Donor: Some couples will elect to use a relative such as a sister, cousin, friend, or others close to a recipient to assist them with this process. In addition: Some recipients who are looking for a specific requirement that is not commonly found will sometimes opt to "self recruit" an egg donor by searching out prospective donors on their own.
• Split Egg Donor: These are women who also need an assisted reproductive cycle (IVF) themselves and who are willing to "split" their eggs with you. (You get half, they get half.) Often these women do not have Insurance coverage for IVF or the financial means to pay for the IVF procedure. They are patients of the practice, and are referred to the program by one of our physicians. These women are offered participation in this program because the physicians feel they will produce a substantial number of good quality eggs thus giving both you and the donor an equal chance of success in achieving a pregnancy.

Shared Donor Program

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