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Give Donor Eggs

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What is egg donation more than a gesture from yourself? In reality, it is an honour and a lifelong gift to be able to give donor eggs. It means some one you will never meet will always cherish you and think of you with an abundance of love and adoration. It means you give a tiny microscopic piece of yourself and you have the chance to become part of a miracle.

In South Africa, we have a protected and encouraging environment for woman to reach out and give donor eggs. It is a real deed that makes a significant impact, that changes people’s lives forever and contributes in the most fundamental way.

There are so many people inflicted with infertility and for them the only chance of conception is to consider egg donation. This is very often a traumatic acceptance process. It involves a period of grieving for their own eggs, but then the beautiful part starts and this is where the embracing of the anonysmous egg donor comes in. Asking her, thanking her, praying for her and loving her – whilst all the time not actually seeing her adult face and not ever hearing her wonderful voice and seeing her giving heart through her eyes.

So, if you are between 18 and 34, healthy and would like to be part of a miracle, please complete an application form on www.baby2mom.co.za to give donor eggs. Blessings for thinking of this!

Egg Donor Facilitation

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Recipients needing egg donation require different levels of assistance in making this delicate decision. For some persons, they would like sufficient information and free and immediate access. Others require more support and guidance along the way. The process of egg donor facilitation is an empowering process of assisting recipients of donor eggs to make the best choice possible for them in terms of their required egg donor profile.

No person can make the choice for another and very often egg donation recipients feel divinely guided about the right egg donor. It can be a smile or a simple statement in the egg donor’s profile that moves a person to knowing that she is the right person to help them conceive. It can be her message to them which is exactly what they needed to hear at that special moment in their lives.

Egg donation is an extraodinary special deed and so the moment and process of selecting the right egg donor is coupled with that beauty and awesomeness. Egg donor facilitation is about guiding and being available to help egg donation recipients during this time.

Persons are often drawn to considering detailed aspects, such as whether the egg donor is a smoker, details of her previous egg donations and the likes. Whilst smoking is not ideal, in our experiences of hundreds of egg donation programmes, egg donors are not declined becuase they smoke as many smoking egg donors have contributed to miracle pregnancies.

Previous egg donation results, number of eggs and quality of embryos – this topic is more the field of a professional embryologist. Previous egg donation results are highly impacted by sperm quality and the quality of the uterus to receive the developing embryo and help its further growth into a baby. The ideal scenario is fertility specialists confirm whether egg donors have produced quality eggs to donate again. More details around embryos may result in accurate information being lost. It is always important to assess hormone levels prior to an egg donation program. This is more relevant than results of previous egg donations.

The role of egg donor facilitation is important and requires prompt attention, honesty and integrity. More details about baby2mom Egg Donation processes can be found online at www.baby2mom.co.za

Fathers Day UPon Us

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Fathers Day approaching. Many persons are only able to become parents through the help of others. Egg donation is one of those gracious deeds, where people get to call themselves Mommy and Daddy after the thought of a lifetime of being barren and having no one to create some chaos in their lives. Cape Town South Africa egg donation has become a very popular option.

In fact, the entire South Africa is a beam that shouts out, “we help people”. These wonderful egg donors contribute to a totally different life for many. Do they realise that a two week sacrifice of appointments, scans (yes, some uncomfortable, invasive) and injections actually is part of the facilitation process to enable a miracle, to avail someone to celebrate Fathers Day. Egg donation is available at most of the key centres in South Africa, where the egg donation process is tried and tested and egg donors participate as part of a professional program.

Cape Town South Africa egg donation is a popular option with many recipients chosing to take advantage of tourist attractions and luxuries that make a trip half way around the world so worthwhile.

So thank you to the egg donors who make these days special. Thank you for enabling so many to receive Fathers Day cards in childish handwritings. If you want to make such a difference, please see more about Cape Town South Africa egg donation on www.baby2mom.co.za

Eizellspende

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Egg donation, or eizellspende in german is a unique and special process enabling otherwise infertile persons to conceive.

Egg donation, by comparison with sperm donation, is usually a fresh cycle of donating eggs, whereby a woman actually participates to help another. Sperm donation is usually a once off contribution (after appropriate screening) and the sperm is kept in quarantine and then made available as a frozen option. Egg donors have to actually contribute at the time the egg donation is required.

This makes eizellspende a very special process for egg donors. They are quite intimately involved in the process, the emotions from the egg donation recipient’s side and there is very often an exchange of corrspondence between egg donor and recipient regarding progress and updates. So although completely anonymous and confidential, egg donation can be a very spiritual process and result in a unique anonymous bond between the two very special parties.

What a great way of giving. The reality is egg donation really is the gift of life and recipients of these amazing donor eggs will forever treaure this amazing gift and know how this uplifts them and heals the pain of a previous plight of infertility.

baby2mom Egg Donation Agency, an established egg donation agency, facilitating egg donations in South Africa and thus very involved in eizellspende, can be found on www.baby2mom.co.za

Egg Donation As A Viable Option in South Africa

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In many parts of the world, there is a common understanding that a shortage of egg donors exists. Emotionally struggling infertiles potentially contact fertility clinics and are advised to put their names on a waiting list and be patient. This waiting can be an excruitiating experience. The reasons for long waiting periods stems from various reasons such as legislation and costs. It is for this reason that a very attractive option has become the notion of egg donation abroad in South Africa.

Many benefits include professional egg donor services that are required to adhere to established standards to ensure quality, moderation, reputability, to say the very least. Another significant attraction includes the signifcant cost saving. Egg donation abroad in South Africa is well known for its affordability. In many cases, recipients of donor eggs have advised that the total trip, holiday, total egg donation program and other costs still amount to less than an egg donation treatment protocol in their home country.

The other big contributing factor to South African egg donation includes the availability of egg donors. The growing understanding and increased awareness of infertility and the help that egg donors can make all make egg donation South Africa a fertility treaure and the answer to the plight of struggling persons in premature menopause, those who have poor ovarian reserves, low responses to IVF and simply those who have been advised to proceed with egg donation to conceive. The advanced egg donor database enabling recipients to select criteria (being physical traits, reproductive information or qualification information) as well as regions makes the selection of the ideal egg donor as easy choice. Assistance is afforded to select the egg donors from either the Cape Town egg donor database, Port Elizabeth egg donor database, Johannesburg egg donor database, Pretoria egg donor database or Durban egg donor database.

There is no longer a need to wait (impatiently) and proceed with a less than suitable egg donor. This is a life changing and personal decision and all efforts need to be employed to aid the best option,

Bottom line – professionalism, affordability, availability of egg donation databases through South Africa make egg donation abroad in South Africa an ideal solution and option. Details for this solution can be found on www.baby2mom.co.za

Professional Egg Donation Services

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baby2mom offers reputable egg donation services. Since 2007, these egg donor services have extended and grown enabling improved services, easier access to a full egg donor database, supporting ease of communication and support for all parties involved in the egg donor process. When seeking egg donation, it is important to demand professional egg donation services.

Aspects determining reputable egg donation, qualified and established can be found in the length the egg donor agency has been in existence. The number of years, number of completed egg donation programs and size of egg donor database all help to form the opinion of professional egg donation services. The immediate access to the detailed donor profiles makes the searching for the right egg donor easier and quicker for recipients.

Egg donation recipients are also supported and aided for suitable fertility clinics who actually perform the medical side of the egg donor process. This is a specialised process, so fertility clinics who specialise in the egg donation process are recommended.

Having full knowledge and understanding of the necessary legalities, norms, guidelines and ethics around egg donation are crucial as part of a professional egg donation agency offering such a service.

TV clips, interviews on egg donation, reputable media support all confirming the experience, reputation and extensive knowledge held by the egg donation agent.

More information on professional egg donation services can be found on baby2mom Egg Donation Agency on www.baby2mom.co.za.

Egg Donation Facilitation

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Fertility treatment is a highly personalised excercise and requires extensive information and guidance. Full information to select the right fertilty clinic and correct egg donation agency to adequately perform the egg donation facilitation are crucial aspects of planning egg donor treatments. This ensures a seamless service of updates, availability, service, information and relevant communications between all parties.

A professional egg donation agency should be qualified to answer relevant aspects pertaining to an egg donor program in respect of the necessary legalities, processes and recommended egg donation clinics. Information applicable to the costs, timelines and persons all help persons involved in the egg donor program to be well equipped to make an adequate and informed decision.

Support around the egg donation facilitation is necessary. When an egg donor has a medical query, she needs to be able to have immediate access to a contact in the egg donor agency to count on a timeous and informed reponse. When an egg donation recipient is concerned about an aspect – be it pertaining to the egg donor, the clinic or the process, they need to be reassured that the egg donor services enable their access to their egg donation contat promptly.

The support, information sharing session and servie can either be provided in writing or or through a personal consultation where every thing is explained and discussed.

Fertility treatments, especially those requiring egg donation and/ or surrogacy are highly specialised and it is imperative to obtain all th necessary aspects pertaining to egg donation costs, contact persons, processes, guidelines, etc thoroughly.

Surrogacy is highly regulated and requires comprehensive information and ideally assisted through a surrogate attorney who is experienced in matters pertaining to surrogate motherhood agreements.

baby2mom Egg Donation Agency, an online egg donor site, found on www.baby2mom.co.za offers professional egg donation facilitation and can draw on a wealth of expertise on matters pertaining to egg donation services.

Egg Donation Abroad

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South Africa is a sought after destination for egg donation and warmly referred to as egg donation abroad or affordable egg donation.

There are many aspects making egg donation affordable and a reason for persons to travel for egg donation. The sheer professionalism and successes of South Africa’s quality medical care as well as the established egg donation process in South Africa.

Quality pre-screening by baby2mom egg donation agency ensures that the egg donor has consented in writing to the egg donor program and given her full upfront committment that she is in a safe and happy place to proceed. Further controls in the form of a formal psychological assessment and updated blood tests are undertaken before any planning for the egg donor program gets underway.

The high success rates and feasable freezing of remaining viable embryos implies and means that recipients of donor eggs essentially have more than one attempt at an IVF program with donor eggs in the event of having such frozen eggs from an egg donor cycle. So the male partner need not travel again for this leg of the treatment as the embryo is frozen, rather than the donor egg.

Reasonably priced egg donation agency fees further contribute and support the affordable egg donation abroad treatments.

The quality, professionalism and expertise of the fertility clinics who specialise in egg donations – offering the best chances for conception through egg donation make travelling for egg donation or egg donation aborad a very feasble and viable option.

The seamless and close correlation between fertility clinic and egg donation agency ensure that both the recipient and egg donor are offered the very best and ensures that the high quality reputation offered by egg donation South Africa remains intact.

More on affordable egg donation adn egg donation abroad for egg donation South Africa can be found on baby2mom Egg Donation Website, on www.baby2mom.co.za

Egg Donation Explained

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Egg donation is an extraordinary life changing gift that offers hope to woman who previously thought they could never have children. But what is the process of receiving donor eggs and the legalities involves? Here egg donor expert Jenny Currie from baby2mom answers your questions and clarifies the concept of egg donation explained.

What are the chances of a successful pregnancy when using a donor egg?
Egg Donation Programmes have a success rate of about 48%; however this figure can vary depending on sperm quality and uterine readiness. Embryos are individual beings, so even with perfect conditions, they may not actually develop into a baby. Egg donation is about giving a chance where there is no chance with the recipient’s own eggs.

Is there a waiting list for donor eggs?
Depending on the specific egg donor agency with whom recipients are working, there should not be a waiting list for egg donors. The norm is that egg donor recipients are provided with immediate online access to a donor database of egg donors, with
options to consider elements such as race, physical traits, reproductive information and personality traits. It may be that there is a waiting period for a specific profile of egg donor. E.g. in some countries there may be a scarcity of egg donors of a particular race group.

Is there an age limit to be a donor egg recipient and if so why?
South African guidelines for egg donation emphasise that special consideration should be given to couples where the female recipient’s age is greater than 50 years. For this reason some clinics enforce a cut off age of 50. This is to protect the health of the woman as she may not be medically suitable to carry a baby after this age, compromising her overall health.

How long will it take to plan my donor program and what should my first step be?
Typically, a two month period is required to plan a donor program. As menstrual cycles can be manipulated, the timing can really be planned to the recipient’s specifications. Usually donor programs are planned within a three month period, but with the consent of all parties, planning can extend beyond this time frame. So after the egg donor’s screening, recipients can be given exact dates to allow appropriate planning arrangements to be made. During the egg donor program, egg donation explained is made clear to persons involved and they are kept abreast throughout.

Is egg donation expensive, what are the costs for egg donation and what does this cover?
In addition to a regular IVF fee, additional costs for egg donation include screening assessments (psychological and medical) for the egg donor, ultrasounds for egg donors to assess egg development (this is in addition to the uterine assessment scans performed on the egg recipient), donor donation (which in South Africa is a fixed amount paid via the fertility clinic), possible donor travel costs (depending on the donor’s situation) and donor agency fees (to facilitate the egg donor program). Essentially egg donation in South Africa is a very viable, feasible and affordable solution.

Do I need to be medically confirmed to receive donor eggs and if so where do I go to get the required tests?
To optimise the process for egg donation, women as recipients of donor eggs should have necessary medical tests. Men, whose sperm will be fertilising the eggs, should also have specific tests done. Recipients can submit required medical results to fertility specialists in person or online to confirm that that their body is in an optimal space to receive donor eggs.

Do I need to worry about the legal requirements and contractual obligations in the donor process?
No, a professional egg donation agency will take care of any such details and ensures compliance with the legalities of the country as well as any governing guidelines.

I’ve read online that I need to match my blood group to that of the egg donors, is this correct?
No, matching of blood types does not influence the outcome at all. Blood groups are really provided for information purposes so that recipients have access to all information.

Is egg donation governed in South Africa?
Yes, ethical guidelines exist in South Africa to govern the process of egg donation. Recipients of donor eggs are recommended to only work through reputable and professional egg donation agencies that are in compliance of the requirements of the
South African Society for Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecological Endoscopy (SASREG). These specify certain work ethics, such as the number of donations, information that needs to be provided to be egg donors and recipients, screening processes of egg donation, advertising for egg donors as well as the egg donor donation.

Will I meet my egg donor?
No, egg donation in South Africa is completely anonymous and confidential, for this reason South Africa is a highly sought after destination for egg donation worldwide. There is no egg donor registry, so egg donor recipients are fully empowered to keep the decision of egg donation completely confidential. The egg donor will not be able to trace the egg donation. In keeping with the anonymity, only childhood pictures of the donors, up to the age of 10 are provided. Unfortunately some egg donors do not have access to these, so no pictures will be available. The egg donor’s responsibility and participation ends on the day of egg retrieval with the full understanding that no further involvement is required and that children conceived of her egg donation cannot look her up in any way. The egg donor agency is happy to facilitate this interaction, as long as it is anonymous.

What screening is carried out on an egg donor, are there both physical and psychological tests?
Full psychological assessments, blood tests and an internal ultrasound are performed. Hormonal blood levels are tested to confirm the egg donors’ suitability to produce good quality eggs, in addition HIV status is also checked. If a recipient elects for a donor to be tested for other aspects these can be undertaken. Professional egg donor agents do not recruit donors to their database if they have a medical history of predisposition to genetic disorders such as club foot, haemophilia, bipolar illness, etc.

How do I select an egg donor, what should I be looking for, can I get help with this?
Refer to the online egg donor database and consider what is important to you. For some recipients physical match is important. Other recipients elect to match personality, interests, academic, religious or other aspects. At the end of the day this is a personal decision and recipients are encouraged to be guided by their heart to select the right egg donor. The egg donor agent should be willing to assist with recommendations.

Will my child take on my traits with donor eggs?
From conception and throughout life a child witnesses their parents’ behaviour and therefore your own traits and mannerisms will be visible in your child. Aspects that are genetically influenced will stem from the egg donor and not the recipient as the latter does not influence the genes of the child in any way.

Will I be able to breastfeed if I receive donor eggs, there is conflicting opinion on the internet?
Of course recipients can and are encouraged to breastfeed. Other than the recipient’s ovary not producing the egg, all aspects about the pregnancy are the same. Breastfeeding actually encourages further bonding and provides the new infant with all required nutrition to start life.

Should I select an egg donor with proven fertility, i.e. a donor who has donated successfully before and/or has children of their own?
A careful screening of the ovarian reserve of the egg donor is more important than their fertility history. It is not necessary to select an egg donor who has a history of fertility, these facts are provided for information only. Every woman is different and
every cycle is different. Egg donors may respond differently to artificial stimulation than to natural fertility.

What happens if my egg donor is found not suitable?
It may happen the egg donor is declined psychologically and or medically and these aspects can only be confirmed at the time of such professional assessments. These screenings are controls to give the recipient the very best of chance of conception with donor eggs. In the event of the donor not being advised to proceed, the egg donation agency will assist you in finding a new egg donor or you as the recipient can select a new egg donor from the database.

Would my egg donor donate continuously, is there a limit or can they donate as many time as they wish?
No, egg donors donate a maximum of 6 times or to the extent that 6 children are conceived of egg donation.

Jenny Currie is the founder and owner of dynamic egg donation agency baby2mom. For more information about egg donation and clarity on egg donation explained in South Africa please visit www.baby2mom.co.za

Men and women who donated are encouraged to reveal their identity

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Men and women who donated their sperm or egg cells anonymously should consider revealing their identity to their biological children, a study into the ethics of donor conception has recommended.
All children born as a result of donor conception after 2005, when the law on anonymity was changed, already have the right to know the name of their biological mother or father when they reach the age of 18.

And a panel of experts has concluded that donor-conceived children born prior to 2005 should also be allowed to know who their donor parents are. A report by the independent Nuffield Council on Bioethics says that donors should be told that they can re-register their details with the Donor Conceived Register.

There should be no compunction on donors to come forward but it is in the spirit of more openness, with parents encouraged to tell their children if they were the result of donor conception, said Rhona Knight, who chaired the Nuffield inquiry.

“In recent years there has been a culture shift. Advice from professionals has gone from the extreme of never telling, to always telling,” Dr Knight said.

It is usually better for children to be told by their parents about their donor conception and if parents do decide to tell them then earlier is better.”

Article: 17th April 2013 www.independent.co.uk

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