Donor Egg

Egg Donor Categories
Egg donors are healthy women, ideally between the ages of 21 and 32. The following are categories of potential egg donors:

Known Donors:
Sisters, other family members, or friends close to the recipient may donate eggs.

Anonymous Donors:
If an appropriate known donor is unavilable, and anonymous egg donor may be considered. These women donate eggs to an infertile woman whose identity also remains anonymous. Anonymous donors are renumerated for their time, effort, inconvenience, and time lost from work. They are not being paid for "selling" their eggs. RSC New England abides by guidelines established by the American Sociaty for Reproductive medicine to assure that the monetary compensation is not coercive or construed as "purchasing" eggs.

All potential egg donors complete a questionnaire about known familial genetic diseases, which will be traced, as extensively as possible, for at least two generations. There is, of course, the possibility that potenial donors may fail to reveal an aspect of their genetic history. The potential egg donor (and her partner, if any) will be screened for sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, syphilis, gnorrhea and Chlamydia, according to FDA regulations.