Step 1
Application and interview (Week 0)
Fifteen minutes online, confidential, no commitment. If your basics fit the egg donor requirements, a coordinator calls — a real person whose number you keep — to walk through the process, answer everything, and build your profile. Nothing medical happens yet, and you can step away at any point without explanation.
Step 2
Matching (timing varies)
Intended parents select donors through our secure database. Matching speed depends on their preferences and your profile; some donors match within days, others wait longer. When you’re selected, your coordinator confirms you’re still available and willing — matching is mutual, and you can decline any match.
Step 3
Screening (Weeks 1–4)
At a licensed fertility clinic, fully paid for: a physical exam and pelvic ultrasound; bloodwork including AMH and FDA-required infectious-disease panels (21 CFR Part 1271); a 600+ gene carrier screen; and a psychological evaluation. You keep every result. The full breakdown of what’s tested and why is at egg donor screening. Screening is also where a physician reviews your individual risk profile — read egg donation risks and side effects before this visit and bring questions; good clinics love prepared donors.
Step 4
Legal agreement (Weeks 3–5)
You and the intended parents sign a donor agreement with independent attorneys — yours paid for by the program. The agreement covers disclosure level (anonymous, semi-known, or known), compensation terms in writing, and everyone’s rights and responsibilities. No injections begin until legal clearance is complete.
Step 5
Cycle prep and synchronization (Weeks 4–6)
Your cycle is synchronized to the treatment calendar, usually with birth control pills for a few weeks — the unglamorous scheduling phase. Your coordinator handles calendar logistics; if your matched clinic isn’t local, travel and lodging are arranged and covered now.
Step 6
Stimulation and monitoring (10–14 days)
You’ll self-administer daily hormone injections — small subcutaneous needles into the belly; nearly every donor reports the anticipation is worse than the reality, and your nurse teaches you the first one. During these two weeks you’ll visit the clinic 5–8 times for quick morning ultrasounds and bloodwork so the physician can adjust dosing to your body’s response. Honest expectations: bloating, fullness, mood shifts, and tender ovaries are common in the final days — your ovaries are doing a month’s work in two weeks. No alcohol, no high-impact exercise, no unprotected sex during stimulation (fertility is temporarily very high).
Step 7
Trigger and retrieval (Day ~14)
When follicles are ready, you take a precisely-timed “trigger” injection, and retrieval happens about 36 hours later. The procedure: IV sedation (you’re asleep, comfortably), a thin ultrasound-guided needle collects eggs directly from each ovary — no incisions, no stitches — and you’re in recovery within 30 minutes, home the same day with someone to drive you. Plan to rest that day. Most donors resume normal life the next day and feel fully themselves within several days; cramping and spotting in the interim are normal, and your clinic gives you a direct line for anything that feels beyond normal.
Step 8
Compensation and follow-up
Your compensation — $8,000–$20,000 per ASRM guidelines, exact figure in writing since before screening — disburses at completion of retrieval, independent of egg count or any downstream outcome. Full mechanics at egg donor compensation. A follow-up visit confirms your recovery, your next period typically arrives within about two weeks, and your coordinator remains your contact — including if you’re interested in donating again (up to six lifetime cycles per ASRM guidance).
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By Dr. Veera Saghar — Egg Donor Coordinator, EggDonors4All. Medically reviewed by Rashmi Gulati, MD — Medical Director, Patients Medical.
Egg donation is a process where a woman (the egg donor) provides one or several eggs (also known as oocytes) for purposes of assisted reproduction, with the eggs being fertilized in the laboratory. Once fertilized, the resulting embryos are transferred to the recipient’s uterus to initiate a pregnancy, or they can be cryopreserved (frozen) for future use.
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