Egg Donor Conception

Success Rates of Egg Donation

While egg quality diminishes with age, a woman’s uterus and her ability to carry and deliver a child remains relatively constant. Therefore, egg donation offers a substantially higher chance for the delivery of a healthy baby, even in women of advanced maternal age. To view the success rates for RMA of New York, the national average, and individual centers in detail, visit the website for the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) www.sart.org. Please note that a comparison of clinical success rates may not be meaningful because patient medical characteristics, treatment approaches, and entrance criteria for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) may vary from clinic to clinic.

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Third Party Reproduction - Egg Donation + Surrogacy

The Third Party Team at RMA of New York is committed to guiding intended parents through the surrogacy process. Comprised of nurse practitioners and other members of the clinical staff, the Third Party Team is a concierge service that specifically assists individuals in need of an egg and/or sperm donor, and/or a gestational surrogate. The Third Party Team is responsible for organizing the medical screening of potential surrogates, reviewing candidates to help determine eligibility, and coordinating transfer cycles.

Shared Cycle versus Non-Shared Cycle

A recipient can choose a non-shared cycle, in which all of the eggs retrieved from the donor will be given to a single recipient. An alternative option is a shared cycle, where eggs retrieved from a donor are shared between two recipients. This can lower the cost for both recipients’ cycles. RMA of New York follows specific guidelines to help maximize the opportunity for success for both recipients, which can be discussed in greater detail with the Egg Donation Team.

About RMA of New York’s Egg Donors

RMA of New York actively recruits healthy women between the ages of 21 and 33 with no known genetic or sexually transmitted diseases. The Egg Donation Team rigorously screens egg donor candidates to ensure they are healthy and that they fully understand the donation process. Our egg donor pool consists of donors from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, including, but not limited to:

• American Indian / Alaskan Native egg donors
• Asian egg donors
• Bi-racial / multi-racial egg donors
• Black / African American egg donors
• Caucasian / White egg donors
• Hispanic / Latino egg donors
• Indian egg donors
• Jewish egg donors
• Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander egg donors

Egg donors experience a sense of reward and satisfaction knowing that their contribution has a profound effect on the life of another woman or couple. Many of our donors relay to us that the experience of helping a woman to conceive gives them a sense of fulfillment and contentment that they have never felt before.

The Emotional Aspects of Using Donor Eggs

Experiencing infertility can be stressful; coming to grips with knowing conception may not be possible without the help of a donor can compound anxiety. Many potential egg recipients have similar questions, such as: Should the parents ever tell their child? And if so, at what point in the child’s life will it be appropriate to reveal how he or she was conceived? And should the parents keep the egg donation process a secret from their friends and family? Recipients in the Egg Donation Program can discuss the emotional aspects of using donor eggs with RMA of New York’s licensed Psychologist Dr. Georgia Witkin.