Fresh vs frozen donor eggs

Frozen Eggs

• Local. Frozen eggs are immediately available and can be shipped to any City Fertility laboratory in Australia (subject to state import/export legislation). Six frozen eggs are provided to the recipient.
• Overseas.
  • The World Egg and Sperm Bank offers frozen donor eggs. Immediately available in this option, the donor has already been screened, stimulated, and eggs retrieved and frozen. Recipients select eggs, The World Egg and Sperm Bank ships the eggs to the City Fertility laboratory for warming, fertilisation and transfer. Six frozen eggs are offered and after warming, fertilisation and culture, the development of at least one day-three embryo is guaranteed.
  • Genesis International offers fresh cycling donors. If you would like to request frozen eggs from a Genesis donor, Genesis can freeze the eggs after the donor has cycled and had the egg collection, ready to transport to the City Fertility laboratory in Australia. Genesis International guarantees at least one blastocyst embryo will result from warming, fertilisation and culture of the embryos.
  • Manor medical offers frozen donor eggs which are immediately available. The donor has already been screened, stimulated and eggs retrieved and frozen. Recipients select eggs and Manor Medical will ship the eggs to the City Fertility Laboratory for warming, fertilisation and transfer. 8 eggs are offered and after warming, fertilisation and culture, the development of at least 3 high-quality cleavage day 3 embryos or 2 high quality blastocyst embryos are guaranteed.

Fresh eggs

For this option, arrangements are made for the donor’s IVF egg collection cycle to commence – usually between one and four months after egg selection is confirmed.

• Local. Eeve Donor Bank offers fresh local egg donors thanks to our partnership  with Egg Donors Australia. After you have selected a fresh local donor, arrangements are made for the donor’s IVF egg collection cycle to commence. Six fresh eggs are provided to the recipient for fertilisation. If the recipient is not local to the clinic where the donor is cycling, the recipient’s choice of sperm (partner or donor) is shipped to the donor’s local City Fertility laboratory ready for fertilisation of the fresh eggs. If the clinic is local to the recipient, the partner will produce a sperm sample at the clinic on a prescribed date, ready for fertilisation of the eggs.
• Overseas.
  • The World Egg and Sperm Bank also offers fresh donor eggs. After a recipient has selected a donor, The World Egg and Sperm Bank completes the donor’s workup (counselling, screening, consenting) and then the donor commences stimulation for the cycle. The recipient’s choice of sperm (partner or donor) is transported to The World Egg and Sperm Bank so the fresh eggs can be fertilized immediately after egg collection. Embryos created from this cycle are frozen and shipped to the City Fertility laboratory. Six fresh eggs are provided for fertilisation and The World Egg and Sperm Bank guarantees the development of at least 2 blastocyst embryos.
  • Genesis International offers fresh cycling donors. Once you have selected your ideal donor with Genesis, they will make all the arrangements for the donor to commence the cycle. The recipient’s choice of sperm (partner or donor) is then shipped to Genesis ready to fertilise the eggs immediately after egg collection, and Genesis will ship the resulted embryos to the City Fertility laboratory in your area. Genesis International provides eight eggs per allocation and guarantees that at least two blastocyst embryos will result form the cycle.

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