Egg Donation

If a couple has not gotten pregnant after one year of sexual relations without protection, there is a 90% chance that they will need medical assistance in order to be able to have a baby.

 

Many women cannot make their dream of having a child come true because they have no eggs or because eggs are not viable. For this reason, CER founded the first Egg Donation Program in Latin America in 1987; in this program, women make a voluntary and altruistic decision to donate some of their eggs to give other women the chance of having a baby.

 

Donating eggs is one of the most altruistic acts a woman can do. In general, the donated eggs come from women who have undergone hormonal stimulation for their own assisted reproduction. During treatments done to conceive a child, many women produce a number of high-grade eggs that they will not use. By donating their eggs, they can help other women make their dream of being a mother come true.

 

Some women do not have healthy eggs because they have stopped menstruating prematurely, due to ovary failure or cancer treatments. There are also many women who decide to become mothers after the age of 40; these women sometimes discover that their eggs are no longer fit for pregnancy or climacterium has begun. When these women visit a fertility center, they are just as eager to have a baby as other patients. For this reason, CER encourages the voluntary, free and anonymous donation of eggs, which can be used immediately or frozen until a women is ready to get pregnant.

 

The extraction of the eggs is a simply procedure that is done after a 15-day stimulation therapy. It can be done in just minutes and leaves no scarring.

 

It is important to note that although women have a limited number of eggs, donating eggs will not result in an early onset of menopause.