Egg Donation
Many couples that wan to have children find it difficult or impossible to conceive. Some couples can conceive with special techniques that use their own eggs and sperm. Others must use sperm donated from another man. More recently, egg donation has allowed some women, whose ovaries do not produce enough healthy eggs, to become pregnant using donated eggs.
In egg donation, oocytes (eggs) from a young woman are fertilized with the sperm of the recipient's partner to create embryos. These embryos are transferred into the patient's (the recipient) uterus, and the pregnancy proceeds there.
Surrogacy is a variation of egg donation, where the "egg donor" is the patient herself, while the "recipient" is the surrogate, (gestational carrier) who will provide the embryos with a uterus to develop in. The resulting baby is born to the surrogate, and will be returned to the patient and her partner. These procedures enable women with severely diminished ovarian function, or severe genetic diseases to carry a child conceived with their husband's sperm, and for women without a uterus to have a child related to them and their partner.
There are three main types of egg donation:
- Anonymous egg donation in which the identity of the egg donor is not known to the recipient couple.
- Known egg donation- The donor is known by the couple; a friend or relative, for example, donates their eggs
- Surrogacy- an open procedure in which the surrogate and the couple know each other.
More info on:
- Male Infertility
- Egg Donation
- Prenatal Screening
- In Vitro Fertilization California
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