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Embryo Donation
What is Embryo Donation?
Couples, sometimes, need a helping hand in their family-building journey. That’s where Embryo Donation comes in. Many aspiring parents choose this for various medical and personal reasons. It typically involves introducing a frozen or fresh embryo of a donor couple into the recipient female. The pregnancy is then continued as normal once the embryo gets attached to the uterus lining. It is a fairly painless procedure.
What to expect during an embryo donation process (Recipients)
Counselling:
The couple is first counselled by the doctors to clearly explain and prepare them for the steps involved in the treatment. Patients can choose to receive anonymously donated cryopreserved embryos or those formed from the fertilisation of a donor egg and donor sperm from any known persons.
Screening Tests::
The female partner then undergoes a series of tests to ensure her uterus is suitable to receive the donated embryo. If receiving from a known person, the menstrual cycle of the recipient is synchronized to prepare the womb for attachment by the time the donor’s egg is fertilized with a donated sperm and the embryo is formed. The recipient is hence put on prescribed medications to prepare her uterus.
- Uterine evaluations
- Medical examinations to rule out infectious diseases
- Screening tests for sexually transmitted infections such as Hepatitis B, HIV, Hepatitis C, syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia, Rh factor and others
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Embryo Introduction:
The next step is comparatively simpler. The frozen embryo is thawed and introduced into the recipient woman’s uterus for lining attachment. In the case of embryos from known donors, the fresh embryos are transferred into the recipient’s womb on the 3rd or 5th day of their development.
Observation
The patient is monitored for the next 10-14 days. Post 2 weeks, the female partner is tested for positive embryo attachment and is confirmed to be pregnant once it is achieved.
What to expect during an embryo donation process (Donation)
Couples today can be a great help to other aspiring parents in expanding their families. If multiple embryos get formed during their IVF cycles, they can donate the rest if they wish to. The embryos are frozen under a process called cryopreservation. The donors can decide the amount of communication they want to maintain with the recipients or choose to be anonymous.
Frequently Asked Questions
The embryos used in the process are either from patients who donated their embryos directly to our hospital or from embryo/egg banks. You also have the option of finding an embryo from a known person- a friend, family member, or others.
You are eligible to become a recipient if you fall under any of the following categories:
- Couples unable to conceive after multiple IVF cycles
- Partners have inheritable genetic disorders
- Single aspiring parent
- Women in menopause/Premature menopause
- Women older than 35 years
- Prematurely failed ovaries
Yes, fertilizing your egg/sperm with a sperm/egg from a donor is also possible. Find more about this treatment here.
