Whats involved with donating your eggs?

[~breeze~]

Thanks so much dusty, you've given heaps of info & its very helpful

[SD2001]

If you live in NSW, I would also recommend reading the new "Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill 2007" legislation. It can be downloaded from here:

Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill 2007 - NSW Parliament

I suggest that you do read it, as it will apply to you and your family.

It will apply to all new "known" and "unknown" donors.

[KimB]

I have read this with great interest. I looked into being an egg donor many years ago and while I actually rang a clinic in my town about it (3 times actually) I never got a response back. I am now 40 and I know that they will consider my eggs old (lol still have no trouble getting pg though, my youngest is 6 months). Do you guys think it is still viable for me to check out becoming a donor again??

[briggsy's girl]

Kim - your age will potentially work against you for anon donation, but i'm not sure how it would go with known donation...

call the local clinic (again) and harrass them. either that, or check out their website (or the donor websites that are around - i'm sure you will find reference to them in this section) to get more information on age limits. from memory, for anon donation the age cut off is something like 35 or 38 - really not sure on known donation though

[dusty]

Kim - your age will potentially work against you for anon donation, but i'm not sure how it would go with known donation...

call the local clinic (again) and harrass them. either that, or check out their website (or the donor websites that are around - i'm sure you will find reference to them in this section) to get more information on age limits. from memory, for anon donation the age cut off is something like 35 or 38 - really not sure on known donation though

Kim it is lovely of you to consider such a generous act.

BG has offered excellent advice. Unfortunately once you are past 35 egg quality starts to decrease quite significantly and at 40 you will probably be considered too old (sorry!). However, it really depends on the situation and the clinic. My sister is my ED and she turns 37 this year.

Good luck in your endevours!

ETA: I am so sad to hear the clinic never got back to you. There are so few EDs in Australia and every possible donor is a precious gift. It is really irresponsible of them.

[KimB]

Thanks. I will look at some of the donor sites, you never know. As I said before I still have no problems getting pregnant so my eggs can't be too bad lol. It would be nice to think that I could help some other couples to achieve their dreams of having a family.

BG - when I phoned the clinic in my town, there were 0 donors at the time so I don't understand why they wouldn't have called me back.