Egg donors give freely of themselves and it is a very gracious, noble and admirable deed. The gift of life.
We may actually find more egg donors if they knew what the process of a donor life entailed during the egg donor program.
Essentially a donor is required to be committed to participate on a
donor program for a period of around two months. But during this time,
her committment in terms of visits and appointments is really between 5
and 7, made up as follows:
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Initial medical - blood tests and an internal scan.
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Initial psychological screening - this affords the egg donor of
having a personal consultation with a qualified psychologist who can
discuss the process and confirm that the egg donor program is at the
right time for the egg donor.
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Two or three scans over the two week period ending with the egg retrieval.
So whilst the egg donor program requires a level of committment,
egg donors have a pleasant experience during this time of their donor
life.
It is an opportunity to give something back that woudl have ordinarily have been lost.