Donor, Surrogacy & Fertility Preservation

Surrogacy: types and gestational carrier process

Surrogacy: types and gestational carrier process

What surrogacy means in reproductive medicine Surrogacy is an arrangement in which one person carries a pregnancy for another individual or couple, called the intended parent or intended parents. The person carrying the pregnancy may be called a surrogate or gestational carrier, depending on whether they are genetically related to the embryo. From a medical […]

Egg freezing success rates and best age

Egg freezing success rates and best age

What egg freezing can and cannot do Egg freezing involves stimulating the ovaries with injectable hormones, monitoring follicle growth with ultrasound and blood tests, retrieving eggs through a minor procedure, and freezing mature eggs using vitrification, a rapid-freezing technique. If the person later wants to attempt pregnancy, the eggs are thawed, fertilized with sperm in […]

Donor sperm: indications and donation process

Donor sperm: indications and donation process

What donor sperm means in reproductive medicine Donor sperm refers to sperm provided by someone who is not intended to be the social or legal father or co-parent of the child, unless a specific directed-donor arrangement and legal framework says otherwise. The sperm may come from a licensed sperm bank, a clinic-recruited donor program, or […]

Fertility preservation: egg, sperm, and embryo freezing

Fertility preservation: egg, sperm, and embryo freezing

What fertility preservation means Fertility preservation refers to medical techniques used to store reproductive cells, embryos, or tissue for potential future use. The most established approaches are mature oocyte cryopreservation, commonly called egg freezing; sperm cryopreservation, often called sperm banking; and embryo cryopreservation, in which eggs are fertilized with sperm and resulting embryos are frozen. […]

Donor eggs: when needed and IVF process

Donor eggs: when needed and IVF process

What donor-egg IVF means Donor-egg IVF is an assisted reproductive technology in which an egg from another person is fertilized with sperm to create an embryo. The embryo is then transferred into the uterus of the intended parent or gestational carrier. In this arrangement, the egg donor contributes the nuclear genetic material from the egg; […]