Donor Concierge

2012-02-13T10:01:00.001-08:00

New Study Finds Age of Uterus Less Important: Pregnant Women Over 50 “Do Pretty Well” http://ow.ly/8VRFP

2012-02-10T10:01:00.001-08:00

Dr. Aimee: DuoFertility Ovulation Monitor Receives FDA Approval http://ow.ly/8ReGy

2012-02-09T10:01:00.001-08:00

Complications of Surrogacy: N.J. Court Refuses to Uphold Surrogacy Arrangement, but Awards Full Custody to...read on: http://ow.ly/8Retl

2012-02-08T10:01:00.001-08:00

Newsweek: Surrogacy and Fertility: A History, From IVF to Vitrification http://ow.ly/8RdZw

2012-02-07T10:01:00.001-08:00

The Telegraph: Genetic research: how many parents is too many? http://ow.ly/8Rd7w

2012-02-06T10:01:00.001-08:00

WSJ: Having a Baby in Year of the Dragon Is Too Lucky to Be Left to Chance http://ow.ly/8RdtP

2012-02-03T10:01:00.001-08:00

Very interesting study! "Older women who become pregnant from egg donation not at greater risk than younger counterparts" http://ow.ly/8RcTd

2012-01-30T10:02:00.001-08:00

London Evening Standard: IVF mother with 'miracle' girl gives new hope to couples http://ow.ly/8Go97

2012-01-27T10:01:00.001-08:00

Great blog post from @iTriage: Egg Donors: Society’s Altruists?
http://ow.ly/8GogK

2012-01-26T10:01:00.001-08:00

Chinese news: Waiting for a baby
http://ow.ly/8Go3I

2012-01-25T13:02:00.001-08:00

WSJ: Having a Baby in Year of the Dragon Is Too Lucky to Be Left to Chance
http://ow.ly/8GnE2

2012-01-04T10:10:00.001-08:00

New article! Human Eye Color Charts http://ow.ly/8i4LN

2011-12-23T10:00:00.001-08:00

Article by Dr. Aimee: Body weight and Fertility – The Facts http://ow.ly/880Ya

2011-12-22T10:00:00.001-08:00

Found 41 bright, slim brunette donors for my CCRM patient, and 42 brunette, extremely intelligent donors for an East Coast client.

2011-12-21T10:01:00.001-08:00

Searching for brunette, extremely intelligent donors for an East Coast client.

2011-12-20T10:01:00.001-08:00

Found 105 Asian donor candidates for an international client.

2011-12-19T10:01:00.001-08:00

Found 69 repeat, brunette Caucasian donors for Dr. Ringler's patient and 64 fair skinned med. height donors for my CCRM client.

2011-12-16T13:01:00.001-08:00

Searching for repeat brunette Caucasian donors for Dr. Ringler's patient + fair skinned med. height Caucasian donors for my CCRM patient.

2011-12-15T11:01:00.001-08:00

Found 77 fair skinned, dark eyed Caucasian donors for one client and 39 brunette, medium height Caucasian donors for another client.

2011-12-15T09:55:00.001-08:00

New article: Many women overestimate their fertility, study finds http://ow.ly/80CSW

2011-12-14T10:01:00.001-08:00

Searching for bright, slim brunette donors for my CCRM patient .... and found 53 tall, blonde Caucasian donors for another client.

2011-12-13T10:01:00.001-08:00

Searching for brunette, medium height Caucasian donors for my client... and found 52 tall, fair skinned Caucasian donors for another client.

2011-12-12T10:01:00.001-08:00

Article: Woman of 56 gives birth to twins - Daily Mail
http://ow.ly/7UvWf

2011-12-09T10:00:00.001-08:00

Intriguing article: Sperm donor children speak out. http://ow.ly/7Tfod

2011-12-08T10:00:00.001-08:00

Found 42 Korean and Chinese candidates for my client.

2011-12-07T10:00:00.001-08:00

Searching for tall, fair Caucasian donor candidates for my clients.

2011-12-06T10:00:00.001-08:00

Searching for Chinese or Korean candidates for my client.

2011-12-05T10:00:00.001-08:00

Found 70 well-educated African-American donor candidates for my client.

2011-12-02T09:00:00.001-08:00

Interesting article: Wi-Fi Laptops Harm Sperm Motility And Increase Sperm DNA Fragmentation - from Medical News Today http://ow.ly/7LwCQ

2011-12-01T11:17:00.001-08:00

Found 27 Latin donor candidates for Dr. Ringler's patients.

2011-11-30T10:00:00.001-08:00

Searching for fair skinned, dark eyed Caucasian donor candidates for my client.

2011-11-29T17:00:00.001-08:00

Searching for tall, Latin or Mediterranean donors for Dr. Ringler's patients.

2011-11-28T11:00:00.001-08:00

Found 56 tall, athletic brunette donors for Dr. Zouves' patient.

2011-11-23T10:01:00.001-08:00

Found 32 100% Chinese donor candidates with Type O blood for Dr. Ringler's patient.

2011-11-22T10:01:00.001-08:00

Searching for an athletic, tall, brunette Caucasian donor for Dr. Zouves' patient.

2011-11-21T10:00:00.001-08:00

New article! The Value of Donor Concierge by Gail Sexton Anderson http://ow.ly/7x4Y6

2011-11-18T17:00:00.001-08:00

Article: The Value of an Egg Donation By Robyn Nazar, RN BSN http://ow.ly/7uw0h

2011-11-18T09:00:00.001-08:00

Story of 1 couple's journey, from @MayoClinic: 'An Amazing Gift of Life – Via Gestational Surrogacy' http://ow.ly/7uv0G

2011-11-17T17:00:00.001-08:00

Great blog post! Egg Donation Disclosure: a blog by @DonorDiva http://ow.ly/7uvHX

2011-11-17T10:00:00.001-08:00

Found 35 Caucasian donor candidates for Dr. Surrey's patient.

2011-11-16T17:00:00.001-08:00

Found 43 Caucasian donor candidates for Dr. Aimee's patient.

2011-11-16T10:01:00.001-08:00

Found 8 local, brunette, well-educated Caucasian donor candidates for my West Coast client.

2011-11-16T09:00:00.001-08:00

Article: 'San Diego Fertility Dr Lori Arnold Exceeding National IVF Success Rates'
source: The Open Press
http://ow.ly/7uu7K @IVFAuthority

2011-11-15T17:00:00.001-08:00

Searching for a tall, well-educated, repeat African-American donor for my client.

2011-11-15T11:01:00.001-08:00

Searching for tall, brunette, Caucasian previous donor candidates for Dr. Surrey's patient.

2011-11-15T10:00:00.001-08:00

Found 26 100% Chinese and Taiwanese donor candidates for my client.

2011-11-14T17:00:00.001-08:00

Searching for 100% Chinese donor candidates with Type O blood, for Dr. Ringler's patient.

2011-11-14T11:00:00.001-08:00

Searching for slim, dark blond, light eyed Caucasian candidates for Dr. Aimee's patient.

2011-11-14T10:00:00.001-08:00

Interesting global surrogacy news. Article by @the_irish_times: The babies born into a legal limbo http://ow.ly/7iltZ

2011-11-10T11:00:00.001-08:00

Read this article: "How Donor Concierge Helps Intended Parents" by Gail Sexton Anderson http://ow.ly/7onSz

2011-11-10T09:00:00.001-08:00

Surrogacy around the globe: Bulgarian parliament legalizes surrogacy on first reading, article by Focus News Agency http://ow.ly/7ilbW

2011-11-09T14:00:00.001-08:00

Found 33 available Caucasian donor candidates for Dr. Ringler's patient.

2011-11-09T09:00:00.001-08:00

Great article to read by Dr. Aimee: How to deal with the Stress of an Infertility Diagnosis http://ow.ly/7ijR0

2011-11-08T17:00:00.001-08:00

Found 50 available 100% Chinese donor candidates for my client.

2011-11-08T10:00:00.001-08:00

Found 20 available 100% Japanese donor candidates for my client.

2011-11-07T17:00:00.001-08:00

Searching for 100% Chinese or Taiwanese donor candidates for my client.

2011-11-07T10:00:00.001-08:00

Searching for local, brunette, well-educated Caucasian donor candidates for a client.

2011-11-07T09:01:00.001-08:00

Searching for 100% Chinese, well-educated donor candidates for my client.

2011-11-04T17:00:00.001-07:00

Searching for 100% Japanese donor candidates for a client.

2011-11-04T10:00:00.001-07:00

Found 36 available Greek donors for Dr. Zouves' patient.

2011-11-03T17:00:00.001-07:00

Found 58 local, available Caucasian donors with blond hair and blue eyes for Dr. Fredrick's patient.

2011-10-27T19:13:00.001-07:00

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2011-10-27T14:00:00.001-07:00

Found 30 East Indian donor candidates for Dr. Ryan's patient.

2011-10-27T11:00:00.001-07:00

Searching for Caucasian, well-educated, previous donor candidates for Dr. Ringler's patient.

2011-10-27T09:00:00.001-07:00

Searching for 100% Greek donor candidates for Dr. Zouves' client.

2011-10-26T17:00:00.001-07:00

Found 31 African American donors for a UCSF patient.

2011-10-26T14:00:00.001-07:00

Found 41 Asian, type O blood donor candidates for my client from HRC.

2011-10-24T11:00:00.001-07:00

Searching for blonde, Caucasian donor candidates for Dr. Fredrick's client from HRC in Laguna Hills, CA.

2011-10-21T11:00:00.001-07:00

Found 33 available Caucasian egg donors for Dr. Tourgeman's patient.

2011-10-21T09:00:00.001-07:00

Found 39 brunette, Caucasian egg donors for Dr. Jain's patient.

2011-10-20T17:00:00.001-07:00

Searching for East Indian donor candidates for Dr. Ryan's patient.

2011-10-20T14:34:00.001-07:00

Searching for Asian donor candidates, with blood type O, for my client.

2011-10-19T15:00:00.001-07:00

Tips on Improving Your Egg Donor Site ow.ly/6WME2

2011-10-19T13:00:00.001-07:00

Searching for a petite African American donor for a UCSF patient.

2011-10-19T09:05:00.001-07:00

Tips for Improving Your Donor Program ow.ly/6WMfY

2011-10-18T16:05:00.001-07:00

Found 34 available Caucasian brunette egg donors for Dr. Aimee's patient.

2011-10-18T13:06:00.001-07:00

Found 42 available Caucasian donor candidates for Dr. Cheykowski's patient.

2011-10-18T10:35:00.001-07:00

Brand New TV Show Looking for Same Sex Couples Who Want a Child! For more info: http://ow.ly/71bKg

Brand New TV Show Looking for Same Sex Couples Who Want a Child!

2011-10-18T10:19:00.000-07:00

BRAND NEW TELEVISION SHOW LOOKING FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES WHO WANT A CHILD!!!!!!

Are you and your same sex partner dreaming of having a child?

This show will document the processes that a same-sex couple goes through when becoming a parent with the help of a surrogate.

How does a couple choose a surrogate? How does a couple choose an egg donor? What choices do they have?

The show will focus on the experience from the couple's point of view from the time they decide to become parents to the moment that they have found the perfect matches in their donor and surrogate.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a photo of yourselves, your contact phone number and a brief description of you and your partner to Blair Franklin at lookinggoodtv@gmail.com or call 415-640-2011.

2011-10-14T18:00:00.001-07:00

Tips on Improving Your Egg Donor Site http://ow.ly/6WME2

2011-10-14T09:00:00.001-07:00

Tips for Improving Your Donor Program http://ow.ly/6WMfY

2011-10-13T18:15:00.001-07:00

I will be at ASRM from Friday night through Wednesday. I hope to see you there. If you would like to meet up message me and I will give you my cell number.

2011-10-12T18:15:00.001-07:00

I will be at ASRM from Friday night through Wednesday. I hope to see you there. If you would like to meet up message me and I will give you my cell number.

2011-10-12T14:05:00.001-07:00

I will be at ASRM from Friday night through Wednesday. I hope to see you there. If you would like to meet up message me and I will give you my cell number.

2011-09-16T17:20:00.001-07:00

Found 31 Korean egg donors for Dr. Danzer's patient in Beverly Hills.

2011-09-15T18:20:00.001-07:00

Four Good Reasons to Donate Your Eggs http://ow.ly/6vkDn

2011-09-15T17:20:00.001-07:00

Found 28 blond, Jewish egg donors for Dr. Ringler's patient at CFP in LA.

2011-09-15T17:15:00.001-07:00

Found 30 blond,brown eyed, college educated egg donors for Dr. Schriock's patient at PFC SF.

Four Good Reasons to Donate Your Eggs & a Couple Dozen Reasons Not To By Anonymous Donor

2011-09-15T08:03:00.000-07:00

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 15th, 2011 and is filed under Donor Concierge, Egg Donation

1) You’re not using them. A few people freaked out when I told them I was doing this and got really sad for me and said, “But why are you giving away all your eggs?!” It’s actually not quite that dire.

As I understand it, you’re born with all the eggs you’ll ever have hanging out in approximately one million immature follicles in your ovaries. During childhood, about half of these follicles are absorbed back into your body. It’s just what follicles do. When you start going through normal menstrual cycles, every month 10 to 20 follicles surface and start to think about getting going with their lives. But each month, only one or two receive the burst of estrogen it takes to mature their eggs into entering the cold empty jobless world of the uterus, where they’ll eventually give up on their careers, develop an unhealthy relationship with Mr. Tampon, and have a cold, damp honeymoon on the shores of the Toilet Sea. The rest of the follicles take the path of least resistance and get re-absorbed into the body. I’m not here to judge.

But when you stimulate your follicles with the hormones used in In Vitro Fertilization, ALL of those 10 to 20 follicles mature into eggs that month, which are then harvested or, in egg donor vernacular, “retrieved” (the language of egg donation doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny). Either way, that month the same number of follicles are available, and the same number of follicles will disappear into the body, never to return. You can pump them full of IVF hormones, or you can let them reabsorb, but either way it will not change the number of follicles you will have left in the months and years after that. So why not go on a magical hormone adventure this month? After all…

2) It pays pretty damn well. Well, “pays” isn’t what you’re supposed to call it. The term here is “compensated,” because legally, in America, humans are not allowed to pay other humans for body parts or fluids. But however you like your legalese, the point is, it’s not easy to donate your eggs, and you definitely earn that money. Here’s a brief rundown of the process:

a) Check that you’re under 33. You CAN donate privately up through age 35, but it’s less likely that you’ll pass screening.

b) Send in some pictures and apply at some agencies. Tell faceless strangers every darkest detail about yourself and your family’s health history. Risk getting rejected if you’ve ever been paid for sex, or injected illegal drugs, or taken anti-depressants, or had more than two male sex partners in the last six months.

c) Undergo a battery of tests involving your veins, vagina, genes, and brain. Are you acceptable for reproduction, or merely human? Are you sure you want to know?

d) Wait for a family to decide you’re a “good match.” This can take from a week to six months, so if you owe money to the mob, you might want to apply at Starbucks while you’re waiting. The family will sign a contract with you releasing you of legal responsibility for any child that’s conceived, guaranteeing anonymity, and outlining the terms of your payment. Be aware that the law could change in the future regarding your right to anonymity.

e) Kick your old birth control habits. Say goodbye to your friendly old hormonal IUD, if you have one.

f) When the process starts, you’ll switch to their birth control pills. You can ask for low-dose, by the way, and I wish I had because remember the fun of starting new birth control hormones? YOU DON’T?? HOW COULD YOU FORGET when YOU KNEW how important it was to me? You don’t love me and I don’t believe you ever did.

g) Prepare to stop bathing in sperm the way you like to do. For your sake, I hope your boyfriend (if you have one) doesn’t pick this moment to get all proprietary about your eggs, vagina, or the $$ looming on the horizon. Weird stuff.

h) Spend 10 (or so) days giving yourself one to three shots a day in your belly and thigh fat. They don’t hurt very much, but it can be nerve-wracking as hell.

i) Swell like Violet Beauregard. (Most people don’t actually retain any weight, though. It’s just bloat.)

j) Get big boobs/more attention from dudes you can’t/don’t want to touch.

k) Be home by injection time every night. Get up early for blood draws and ultrasounds at the hospital almost every morning.

l) Avoid imagining your normally olive-sized ovaries swelling up to the size of upsetting oranges.

m) Don’t exercise or dance or even walk very fast, because your upsetting oranges will begin to knock into other things in your abdomen and complain loudly. They can also end up twisting around in what’s called “ovarian torsion,” cutting themselves off in a way I’m told is similar to one long endless kick in the balls, and potentially resulting in infertility or death. It’s very rare, but when you start to feel your ovaries bouncing around inside you with every step (and you will), you’ll take it seriously.

n) Take no medications or supplements other than Tylenol. And as long as you’re not exercising, dancing, or having sex, might as well throw in: no drinking, either. Hope you have a good Netflix queue!

o) For the last day or two, experience the peculiar (possibly totally in-your-own-head) sensation of having an abdomen full of live goldfish.

p) Go under general sedation for a relatively easy surgery. You’ll go to sleep and walk out just fine afterwards — it’s not like anesthesia. You won’t even need more than a “light day” pad. But still, are you scared of/turned on by operating rooms?

q) Not feel like doing much but sleeping and holding still for the first two days after surgery.

r) Discover why you wanted to sleep and hold still when you try to get back to doing things. By the end of the day each day you’ll be swollen and sore from your huge ovaries knocking around inside you. You’ll be gassy and raising a bitchin’ campaign of PMS. You may find yourself eating a lot of junk food. (I think I ate my first Cinnabon since reaching the age of majority. I’m ashamed.) You still won’t want to walk very fast. You still can’t have sex until you get your next period, partly because you could still be excessively fertile, partly because you don’t want to introduce anything potentially infectious into your compromised reproductive system, and partly because you could still end up with ovarian torsion if things got particularly exciting.

s) Worry about the one inconclusive study that correlates fertility drugs with higher incidence of ovarian cancer.

t) Wait about 10 or 11 days to get your period, in which time your ovaries will stay huge and swollen. Watch your period explode out of you with the force of a thousand champagne corks. Hooray! You feel much better now. Go pay off your credit cards. Get laid.

3) All that said, it might not sound worth the $8-10K they offer in those oddly creepy ads sandwiched between “fantasy wrestling” and “topless body rub” on Craigslist. And it probably wouldn’t be, unless you understand what it’s like to be a woman trying for financial solvency AND a good partner in a very ambitious city. If you relate to that, you could be watching your fertile years fade away too. Maybe you’d want to adopt, maybe not. But if you could imagine wanting to use a donor egg, you can hopefully imagine wanting to use a donor egg from somebody like yourself.

My point here is a rough one, but sincere: Not everyone thinks the whole egg donation thing is a reasonable option. Some people think if you can adopt and choose to do IVF instead, you’re just self-indulgent and selfish. Some people think IVF is only for over-privileged, spoiled celebrities breaking the will of God and Nature and exploiting poor younger women’s bodies in pursuit of “designer babies.” Some of your friends think that. Your religious leader of choice might think that. You might find yourself thinking that. So if your only reason to do this is the money, you genuinely might be better off clicking back to the “fantasy wrestling” ad.

BUT, if you’ve ever known a woman who’s tried her best and failed again and again to get pregnant with her own eggs, you may know about the desperation, humiliation, and sense of loss. And if, in your own mind, a woman like that is worth helping in this way — by donating your eggs — then don’t let anyone talk you out of it.

It could be you.

4) In short, it’s a kindness. And you’ll be adequately but not unreasonably compensated for that kindness. And if you wanted to, you could use that money to freeze your own eggs in security against the situation we’re talking about. (However, since we’re talking about it, as of 2005 only 300 “ice-babies” had been delivered worldwide. Long term results are not clear. There’s only a 34% chance your eggs will produce viable embryos. And this guy with a mustache thinks freezing your eggs might be a bit of a con. Still.)

Just watch out for the Cinnabons.

Anonymous Donor is 28 and lives in New York.

Photo by Nixx Photography via Shutterstock

2011-09-14T17:15:00.001-07:00

Found 36, available Chinese egg donors for my NYU patient.

2011-09-13T19:17:00.001-07:00

Emotional Aspects of Egg Donation http://ow.ly/6ojdn

2011-09-13T18:50:00.001-07:00

Sent 75 blond, college educated, CA, egg donors to Dr. Aimee's patient.

2011-09-12T19:17:00.001-07:00

Searching for a 100% Korean egg donor for Dr. Danzer's patient in LA.

2011-09-12T18:47:00.001-07:00

Sent off 36 available East Indian egg donor profiles to Dr. Seli's patient at Yale Fertility.

2011-09-09T17:59:00.001-07:00

Searching for a truly Jewish egg donor mother and father must both be Jewish.

2011-09-09T17:46:00.001-07:00

Found 27 local Caucasian brunette egg donor for Dr. Zouves's patient.

2011-09-08T17:25:00.001-07:00

Found 25 Korean egg donor candidates for Dr. Nelson's patient.

2011-09-08T17:05:00.001-07:00

Searching for a fair, blonde, light eyed Jewish egg donor for Dr. Ringler's patient at CFP.

2011-09-07T17:54:00.001-07:00

Found 23 Persian egg donors for Dr. Marrs patient.

Emotional Aspects of Egg Donation

2011-09-07T17:39:00.000-07:00

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 8th, 2011 and is filed under Donor Concierge, Egg Donation Share

IHR.com
Choosing egg donation as a means to build a family is a big step. Most often it comes after it becomes clear that your eggs are no longer viable; and with this comes grief associated with the loss of the possibility of the you passing your genes on to your child.

However, unlike adoption, donor egg offers you a chance to be pregnant, carry your child in your womb, and give birth to your child. Also, if using your husband’s sperm, your child will be genetically related to your husband which is usually considered a plus. While this may seem inequitable to some, many women are satisfied with their gestational contribution which creates a strong bond.
It usually takes time for intended parents to come to terms with the idea of proceeding with donor egg, but most often, in time, there is acceptance as the desire for a child takes over.
Nonetheless, there are many issues and experiences that can emerge before, during, and after the egg donation process.

It is very important to think about whether or not you plan to disclose the fact that you are using (or used) donated eggs to anyone (your child, family and friends). No matter what you decide, it is critical that you and your husband be aligned with this decision.

If you decide not to tell anyone, then it is very important that you tell no one at all. No matter how much you might trust someone, you cannot be sure that it will be kept confidential, and once the word is out, there is nothing you can do. Know that it can be very emotionally damaging for your child to hear this from someone other than you.

Most often intended parents choose to go the route of anonymous egg donation. Usually a known donor is not available, and many want to avoid the possibility of an egg donor having a future relationship with their child and family. Working with a known donor is a fine option, you just need to be aware of the pros and cons.

Before embarking on, and during, your journey of using donated eggs you may find it helpful to join a donor egg support group. RESOLVE can refer you to support groups in your area.