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Using Donor Eggs

Building Your Family With Donor Eggs

There are many ways to build a family! Donor egg IVF is one treatment option you may wish to consider.

Some patients may not have access to eggs to build their family, or have challenges with diminished ovarian reserve, meaning they have a significant reduction in the quantity and/or quality of their eggs. These patients may opt to utilize an egg donor.

What is Donor Egg IVF?

Donor Egg IVF is a fertility treatment which uses donated eggs (oocytes), which are fertilized with sperm to create embryos. Then, one embryo is transferred into a uterus. Success with a single embryo transfer ranges from 50-65% per transfer. Often you will create more than one embryo with one cycle of donor egg IVF. In this case, embryos not transferred will be kept frozen (vitrified) for future chances of success.

Is the Process Safe?

To promote the safety, well-being, and best interest of you, your baby, and the egg donor, NRM follows all the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). recommended guidelines. While there is no method to completely ensure that infectious agents will not be transmitted, these guidelines, combined with information about the medical history of all involved parties, significantly reduce infectious risks.

Do You Want to Learn More About Our Egg Donors? 

Our team is here to help each step of the way, so you can choose the path that’s right for you.

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NRM's Well-Established and Reputable Fresh Donor Program

Northeastern Reproductive Medicine strives to optimize your success: fresh eggs are less vulnerable and therefore more successful. We screen healthy young women aged 21-32 to identify appropriate egg donors with the best chances of success.  Our program has a higher egg yield for similar costs to frozen egg banks. With a fresh egg donor, you will receive the entire cohort of eggs (frozen egg banks split cycles into “cohorts”) and thus you get more eggs for one cycle cost.

Who are NRM’s Egg Donors?

  • Vermont’s vibrant population of local undergraduate and graduate students, and individuals with a friend or relative struggling with fertility often choose to donate eggs at NRM.

  • Our local educated and diverse population creates a pool of genuine, bright, and open-minded donors.

  • Donors are thoroughly screened following all ASRM and FDA guidelines. NRM sets high standards for fertility, genetic, and psychological, medical and infectious disease evaluations.

NRM’s high standard and decades-long experience working with Vermont donors has led our program to excel at the highest level.

Occasionally, individuals or a couple will have a known egg donor they wish to utilize. That donor will be screened by NRM’s fertility doctors to determine if this donor offers you the best chances at conception.