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baby2mom applauds and blesses all persons are interested in becoming an egg donor or becoming a surrogate.  You are an angel and can make dreams come true.  Because of you, some one can be told if because of the generous and kind help of a special being, you have a chance of becoming pregnant.  Egg donors and surrogates create families and make dreams come true.  This egg donor site is dedicated to helping people in need - helping conception through egg donation and surrogacy programmes - thanks to baby2mom's angels.  Become informed and find all  the egg donation facts right here.

• Ladies of all races between 18 and 34. The reason for this is egg donors must be in a position to consent to the egg donation programme (thus 18) and egg quality is deemed to deteriorate with age (thus the cut off of 34).  Depending on the clinic, the age criteria may be slightly different.  Some Cape Town egg donors are required to be aged 21 before they can donate their eggs.  
• Ladies who have been sterilised can be egg donors.
• Ladies must be prepared to have internal examinations as part of the egg donor screening (egg donation screening) for the egg donor program.
• Healthy BMI - i.e. a healthy lady.
• Ladies must be committed and responsible and avail themselves during the egg donation treatment. 
• Smokers can be egg donors.
• Ladies must be able to avail themselves for a maximum of 2 screening sessions (initial appointment and blood tests on first appointment and scan on second appointment) and 2 or 3 scans once on the egg donor program as well as the egg retrieval.

If you would like to become an egg donor, please complete and return the Detailed Egg Donor Form/ Egg Donation Application/ Egg Donation Application Form to either baby2mom@telkomsa.net or fax to 086 503 3831

Woman become egg donors because South Africa is made up of beautiful people who care for others and want to reach out to fellow humanity. 

Egg Donation Procedure - The Donor Egg Program for South African Egg Donors

• Consultation/ Counselling - Egg donors are encouraged to ask as many questions as you need to feel comfortable. - Have a meeting to sign consent forms, etc. The process of egg donation and every thing involved in egg donation will be explained again.  Egg donation is an important aspect and all persons participating as egg donors should have the opportunity to have a private meeting to be counselled and ask any thing that they need to know.  
• Blood tests - testing for HIV, blood type (if not known), prolactib, thyroid, function, fasting insulin and fertility hormonal tests.  Normally the egg donor will be required to fast (no eating and no drinking, except water) for 10 hours prior to the tests. 
• Scan - This is an internal scan performed by a fertility specialist to verify that the reproductive organs are in tact and that that ovaries appear normal.

Egg Donation Remuneration in South Africa - This is paid by egg donation recipients on the day of egg retrieval - when the donor eggs are ready to be donated:

1. Egg donors are not responsible for any of the costs that are attached to this procedure. The only responsibility on the egg donor is to get to the clinic and arrive for the scheduled appointments.
2. Egg donors will receive a cash donation of between R5,000 and R6000,00 on the day of egg retrieval - dependent on the fertility clinic.  This is usually paid left with the fertility sister or Accounts Department.  Please confirm the exact process and amount when you start at the fertility clinic.  
3. In the unfortunate event that the egg donor program is cancelled because the egg donor has not responded well to egg retrieval, she is likely to receive less.  This is also clinic dependent.  
4. In the unfortunate event that no eggs are retrieved on the day of egg retreival, the egg donor may receive less for her egg donor help.  Please check the conditions with the fertility clinic when you proceed. 

Egg Donor Confidentiality

Egg donation is kept anonymous and confidential.  Egg donors are treated with absolute respect and their details kept entirely confidential.  Upon being interested in egg donation, you may be asked for a picture of yourself. This is just to match you up to a recipient. If you are uncomfortable with this, it is quite acceptable and you need not provide any picture.  Egg donation is a generous deed of the heart to help another couple. The egg donor may know the profile of the couple she is helping. Similarly the donor’s profile will be communicated to the recipient. There is never an exchange of names.  South African Egg Donation encourages anonymous egg donation and confidential egg donation.  

Risks Iro Egg Donation

1. The egg retrieval process is not dangerous.
2. The medication does have slight side effects in that it makes you a little irritable, sometimes tearful. One can feel bloated almost as if you are about to have a period. Some donors seem to breeze through with very little side affects, others seem to feel it more. Drinking a lot of water helps to minimise any discomfort. The egg retrieval process may make egg donors feel a little bloated and uncomfortable for a few days, but as each day goes by it will get better and by the time your next menses arrive you should be back to normal again. This should happen 10 days to 2 weeks after you have had the eggs removed.
3. Egg donation is not harmful to your own fertility.  Neither do any of the drugs have a lasting side effect nor do they do any damage to your ovaries. In fact nothing that we do will compromise your fertility, however you need to understand there are other underlying reasons for infertility; for example blocked tubes, poor sperm count, and we could never assure you that later on you may not have a problem with something like that as we are only focused on your ovaries at this point.

Egg Donation Frequently Asked Questions / Egg Donation FAQ's/ Egg Donor FAQ/ Egg Donor Questions

Q: Is egg donation legal?
A: Yes, definitely. 

• Early onset of menopause – can happen even in teen years for no reason.  Periods stop and her body acts menopausal.  She therefore has no hormones and no eggs and so desperate for the help of a generous egg donor for donor eggs.
• Early menopause – not necessarily as severe as menopause, but egg quality poor.
• Premature ovarian failure - pos - this is a failure of the ovaries to function effectively. 
• Ladies are not ovulating.
• Exposure to auto immune diseases may kill eggs.
• Cancer treatments may harm remaining eggs.
• Hormone treatments may adversely affect cancer treatments
• Genetic diseases that carry over in eggs
• Carriers of fragile X syndrome - potential to increase sudden death syndrome, postive X
• Single men wanting to have children
• Gay males
• And more reasons…