IVF with donor eggs

Study and analysis of your medical profile. Seminogram to validate its quality.

We have a very deep selection process for donors. Egg donors are similar to the patient and has a compatible blood type with the partner. The donor is analysed for the 420 most important genetic diseases, as is the partner to ensure compatibility. Furthermore, donors are under 30 years old, and undergo an AMH ovarian reserve hormone study, karyotype and psychological study. Donor selection is key to having good reproductive results and to prevent medical, genetic and psychological problems for the future child.

The donor is 100% anonymous and has no rights or obligations regarding any children resulting from their eggs.

The chosen donor begins stimulation following our instructions to obtain a good numbers of eggs but without causing her any kind of discomfort.

Once the donor is ready, the egg retrieval is scheduled and the eggs are aspirated. All the eggs obtained are given to the couple in question. A donor does NOT donate eggs to more than one couple at a time.

The same day of the donor egg retrieval, the male partner must obtain a sperm sample so it can be washed and injected into the donor eggs. To maximize results, we avoid using frozen sperm and eggs.

Having injected one spermatozoa into each egg, we will put them in a nutrient-rich mediumand leave them in an incubator simulating the conditions naturally found inside the womb. This incubator has a camera that allows us to take a photo of the egg every 5 minutes so we can see the division of the eggs, that are now embryos, without disturbing the culture conditions.

We can leave the embryos in the incubator for up to 5 days, until they reach the blastocyte stage, which is when they have the highest reproductive potential. That will depend on each patient, especially on the number of embryos obtained. If there are not a lot of embryos we can also cultivate them for 2 or 3 days.

Once the embryos have divided properly, we freeze them all to transfer them afterwards, just when the receptor patient is ready. At FIV Obradors, we guarantee you will have at least 4 top-quality embryos frozen at D+5. In this way, the accumulated pregnancy rate is clearly higher.

After freezing the embryos, and knowing how many there are and their characteristics, it is now time for you, as the patient, to prepare to receive them under the best possible conditions. To do this, you must take hormones to prepare the endometrium, or your cycle can be monitored to see the ideal moment for transferring the embryos. If you want, you can schedule the transfer for the day that best suits you.

Whether with fresh or frozen embryos, the transfer is the placement of the embryos inside your womb. We do it in our operating theatre, without sedation, and you can leave the clinic on your own 30 minutes later. Legally speaking, we can transfer up to 3 embryos but, case per case, we will determine the best option to obtain the best results but avoiding twin pregnancies. After the transfer, we will give you a video of the photos taken of your embryo while it was in the Time-Lapse incubator. If the treatment works and you get pregnant, this will be the first video of your future baby.

Frozen embryos that have not been used will be frozen to be able to use them in the future. Freezing has no cost. We will keep 2 years without cost, and after this period, there will be an annual surcharge.

In some cases, when there are many frozen D+5 embryos, they can be analysed to choose the ones with no chromosome problems and, therefore, that have more reproductive potential and offer you more options of getting pregnant. There is an extra charge for the patient.