by Jenny Currie

Created on: November 18, 2009   Last Updated: March 04, 2010

There is absolutely nothing more devastating than the feeling of sheer and absolute desperation of so desperately wanting a child and being consumed by this thought that nothing else in the world matters. People in these circumstances are often on the look-out for reputable egg donation centers who are reputable and have a sound and qualified background to optimise their chances of a pregnancy.

Egg donation is on the increase as more people are experiencing infertility. It however remains imperative and key to the likelohood of success that the recipient of donor eggs carefully assesses the egg donation centers to ensure available egg donors, adequate and thorough psychological and medical screening of the egg donors, an experienced egg donor clinic that is skilled in the field of egg donation as well as a top notch egg donation agency that can respond intelligently and timeously to egg donor program queries.

The affordability of egg donation is important as well and critical that all egg donation fees are communicated in detail upfront.

South African egg donation is anonymous and confidential. The absence of any egg donor registry ensures complete empowerment with respect to the egg donation for both recipients of donor eggs and egg donors who can then select whether this information should be shared or not.

The effective physical match of egg donors to recipients of donor eggs means that the child conceived of donor eggs may actually take on physical and social traits of the recipients of donor eggs. Most egg donation recipients elect not to disclose to any one how their child is conceived. Understandably once a person is required to consider egg donation, this is after an extensive struggle to become pregnant and it becomes a highly confidential process to consider donor eggs. Only the egg donor agency and the egg donor clinic know details about the egg donor allocation to the recipient of donor eggs. Significant information about the egg donor is made available to the recipient, including physical, social, academic, philosophical and personal information. Pictures are also made available.

The qualifications and experience in terms of the egg donations facilitated should be considered in terms of number of completed egg donor programs, success rates, number of pregnancies, waiting period, costs and which day embryos are transferred. The number of egg donors in the egg donor database as well as their reproductive information is highly relevant information for recipients to select their egg donor.

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