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Pioneering award-winning physicians, cutting-edge technology, meticulous screening, and guarantee programs designed with our patients’ goals in mind. That’s the kind of high-caliber quality and care you can expect when using donor eggs from the Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco.
Our egg donor program is extremely selective; donors undergo extensive medical, psychological, and genetic screening to ensure that only the highest quality egg donors are included in our database. On average, only 1-2% of donor applicants will end up becoming an egg donor.
Our screening includes:
Easy to use, with secure search capabilities, our easy-to-use egg donor database provides valuable information about each of our donors. When you conduct an egg donor search, you’ll find information about each donor’s:
Embarking on the journey of parenthood via egg donation is a profound and deeply personal decision. For aspiring parents who choose this path, one of the many choices they have to make is whether to pursue a fresh or frozen egg donation cycle. Each option comes with its own distinct set of advantages and considerations. It’s crucial to understand your options as early as possible so that you can make the best choice for you and your future family.
With fresh egg donation, the recipient’s and egg donor’s cycles are carefully synchronized so that the donor’s eggs can be immediately fertilized after being retrieved from the donor. After the egg is fertilized, it becomes an embryo, which is transferred to the recipient’s uterus after a few days of development. With frozen egg donation, the eggs are retrieved from the donor, treated with cryoprotectants, flash-frozen via vitrification, stored in cryopreservation tanks filled with liquid nitrogen, and kept frozen until the recipient is ready to use them. Fresh and frozen egg cycles have roughly the same rate of success.
Frozen donor egg cycles offer several advantages. Because frozen eggs can be stored indefinitely, there is much more flexibility in terms of scheduling your cycle and a faster time to cycle completion with less waiting. Frozen donor egg cycles also cost less than a fresh donor egg cycle while offering a larger pool of donors to choose from.
In summary, there are five key advantages to frozen donor egg cycles:
While frozen donor egg cycles have become increasingly popular in recent years, there are many scenarios where a fresh donor egg cycle is preferred, including:
Ready to start building your family? View our donor egg database today.
