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This is something I have thought about for years and I really do want to help those who wouldn’t be able to have children without a donor.
How to donate my eggs
It made me
happy and satisfied 
"Donating my eggs made me feel like I was doing something wonderful for someone."
How I did it: I'd been considering egg donation for four years when I finally decided, this is it. I am doing this. I needed the money, but i also really wanted to do something altruistic, and this seemed like the most generous gift I could give someone, so egg donation it was.
I went online and found a world-famous fertility center in the San Diego area, filled out their application, and was called in for an interview. Little did I know this process was barely beginning. I had two interviews, a psych consult, a session with a genetic counselor, innumerable blood tests for every possible genetic disease, STD, autoimmune disorder, and genetic disease carrier status. I created a family tree of health problems including my siblings, parents, grandparents, cousins, second cousins, and my children.
After I was finally approved, six months later, I waited a month to be chosen as a donor, then took the 20 days of medication. I had to do one or two self-injections with long needles every night, take pills and vitamins, and go in for an ultrasound and blood draw four more times.
I happened to be exceptionally fertile (as my twins prove), and they had to cut my dose on the medication to keep me from spontaneously ovulating before retrieval.
I know a lot of people compain about extreme discomfort during the process, but everyone is different, and I personally did not feel very unfomfortable. The two days before the retrieval I felt a bit achy and sore, and the three days after the retrieval I felt bruised in the pelvic region, but it was not by any means debilitating pain. I only took aspirin after, and I probably didn't really NEED to take it.
It wasn't until a few days after the retrieval that it really sunk it that I had finally donated my eggs. After four long years, it had finally happened. I felt so happy and satisfied with myself, knowing that I had done something amazing for someone else.
Next month, I begin another donation cycle for another couple. I would absolutely recommend anyone interested in this consider it very carefully. Take your time to think it over, but if you really want to do it, I know you will never regret it.
Lessons & tips: 1, FIND A WELL-RESPECTED CLINIC. I cannot emphasize this enough. Hospitals often conduct these procedures, but I felt more comfortable going with a clinic that did donations and INV exclusively. Ask how many porcedures they do every year, and make sure you do your homework online to find out how well-respected that particular clinic is.
2. Be committed. Once you start taking the drugs and doing self-injections, you cannot stop the cycle, or else you will have to pay for it. You have to really want to do this.
3. Know that it will take a long time. If you work with a good clinic, it will take months to get approved. It took me a full six months to actually achieve donor status, so this isn't a get rich quick scheme. It's a serious undertaking that changes your life, and someone else's life.
4. be prepared to give up all rights to your eggs. To donate, you must sign a legal document to this effect, and if you have any strong feelings of attachment to your eggs as your potential children, or if you are at all uncertain about this, do not do it. Only if you know that you will never in your life feel qualms about having completely given up a potential child should you do it.
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1 month ago
I’ve actually been working on this since this past spring. There were often flyers for it available on my university campus, and I had been researching it for awhile. I finally got up the guts to call before the end of the school year and go in to speak with someone. The women’s health center is affiliated with my university, so I felt pretty safe going with them, and so far they’ve been really nice. It’s taken months of paperwork, blood tests, ultrasounds, and appointments, but I’m about to start this process. Part of the motivation comes from a desire to help infertile couples, especially since in New York, their problems usually happen because they put off having children (which, unfortunately, is one of those trade-offs for a labor market that accepts women but doesn’t accommodate their possible simultaneous desires to have families). I’m also not really planning on doing anything with them, so why not, right? The compensation, too, is nice for a starving college student in an expensive city.
I’m a bit anxious, though, so if anyone reading has experience with this and can offer tips for coping, I’d be appreciative. (:
so here i go.
4 months ago
i’ve thought about it a ton. ive had applications at my house 2x and an interview set up, but never went through with it. that was a few years ago, i feel ready now.
im looking for the right place. i live near nyc. wish me luck!
xoxox,
kt
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5 months ago
I am a mother of a 12 year old son and he is my reason for being. I do not plan on having anymore and I have decided to help other people in need. I am a college student and have big dreams for my family. Please let me help you with your dreams as you help mine.
I would love to be a donor
8 months ago
I have kids already and would love to give someone else the gift of life I just dont know where to get started.
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8 months ago
I HAVE 4 KIDS ON MY OWN SO I WOULD LOVE TO HELP ANOTHER WOMAN TO 4FILL HER DREAM ON BECAMEING A MOTHER OF HER ON
Working on it.
10 months ago
I’m currently working on this. I recently received the packet and I’m trying to get it all filled out. It’s a huge packet..like 18 pages! I need to try and contact my dad to get our family’s medical history, though.
I really want to do this.
donate my eggs
10 months ago
I would love to donate my eggs to help other women out their. I can feel good about myself knowing I helped them bring such a joy into the world. And I get some money to help further my education. I have big dreams and if I can help someone else make their dreams come true then that is the best feeling ever.
philosophe is a "healthy, extroverted builder" today. and again, 0% are like me.
sigh/huzzah
10 months ago
so. good news and bad news. which first? good news? okay.
i had my appointment today and everything was good on the genetic tests they ran (may i remind everyone that this was EIGHT vials worth of blood. EIGHT. EIGHT?! eight) and apparently i am healthy, healthy, healthy. yay.
bad news: my IP couple backed out at the last minute. apparently they want to wait for a few months. so i’m still in a holding pattern. sigh. the clinic has reactivated my status as an available donor though, and i’m totally ready to go (no more tests or anything left to do here—makes me a much more attractive choice to potential couples). they say they expect me to be a very popular donor, so hopefully i’ll be chosen in the next week or two.
so yeah. yay for having no diseases, boo for couple backing out for now. and i have no more tests to do, since today they did my final fertility test (it was a blood draw). not worried about the results of that one at all, so now it’s just a waiting game again.
philosophe is a "healthy, extroverted builder" today. and again, 0% are like me.
YES!
10 months ago
my period has arrived! so thrilled. i was seriously worried there. there was a bit of a mishap with the whole part about how i started it in the car on the way somewhere and i had blood on my skirt when i arrived and then i had to quickly run to the bathroom and wash it out as soon as i could and hold my breath and wait until it finally complied with my harried demand of “out, damn spot.” but that would be overshare, so we won’t get into that.
suffice it to say, it is here; i am glad; i will call the clinic and find out what the next step is in a few hours.
EDIT: called the clinic. have 8 am appointment tomorrow. update later.
EDIT NO. 2: tomorrow morning i get the results of my blood tests and get my final fertility test.
i don’t know of any genetic illnesses, so i’m not particularly concerned about the blood tests, i just want confirmation on that. and i KNOW i’m absurdly fertile, so i have no worries about the final fertility test. all i want to hear is that my blood tests came back perfectly clear and the IP couple is still on board.
crossing my fingers til tomorrow
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