Egg donor
Choosing a donor, genetics, anonymity vs. contact.
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When your child asks about the donor
Curiosity migrates over the years from the surrogate to the donor — and it's completely normal. What to answer at every age, what to keep from day one, and the truth about anonymity.
The embryo results email is here — how to read it without panicking
Euploid, mosaic, 4AA — what does it all mean? A short guide to reading the report your clinic sends after PGT-A testing.
Why Consider Genetic Testing Before Creating Embryos with an Egg Donor?
When it comes to starting a family through surrogacy and using an egg donor, there's a lot to think about. One important consideration is ge
PGT-A Embryo Testing – What It Really Delivers, and When It Matters Less
The test that became almost the default in U.S. surrogacy – what PGT-A checks, what it promises, and when you can actually skip it.
What does an embryo grading mean?
In a surrogacy process you want everyone around you to be focused on maximizing your chances of a successful embryo implantation and pregnancy, and a healthy birth, with as few attempts as possible.
Warren Buffet’s tip to finding an egg donor
Sounds completely unrelated, right? What does an American millionaire have in common with an egg donor in a surrogacy process?
The Guide to Common Acronyms & Terms
What surprised me most in my journey wasn't seeing "how surrogacy really works" — it was discovering the medical processes happening "behind the scenes".
A Jewish Egg Donor
Sometimes I talk with people for whom the most important thing in a donor is that she be Jewish.
A surrogate who is also the egg donor
In the vast majority of modern surrogacy processes, the surrogate will not be the egg donor, and she will not share genetics with the baby.
An egg donor and a surrogate - why both and what are the differences?
In the vast majority of cases, there will be two different main figures in the surrogacy process:
A friend as your surrogate or egg donor — is it a good idea?
This is one of the questions I get most often, in two versions: "we have a friend willing to donate an egg", and "we have a friend who wants to be our surrogate".
Is it important to meet with the egg donor?
I’m all for it. We met our egg donor and it was an amazing and exciting encounter, and a wonderful lifelong memento for us and for our girls.
Will we have contact with the egg donor? Will she have any connection to the child?
The connection to your egg donor is a possible option in some of the countries where surrogacy processes take place.
Can you create more embryos with the donor from the first process?
What if you are already a parent, and you’ve decided that the time has come to expand your family, but you don’t have any embryos left over from the first round? Well, short answer - you can…
Genetic tests - what do they test for and how do they compare it with the egg donor?
Genetic tests are an important part of every pregnancy.
First meeting with the egg donor or surrogate
The first meeting or Zoom/Skype call is meant as an introduction, to say hello and create a rapport.