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IVF with Donor Eggs at the Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago
Successful egg donation clinic - with proven Chicago area egg donors
We are a fertility clinic specializing in donor egg IVF with blastocyst transfer.
We are proud of our high success rates with IVF using donor eggs.
Our 2008 Live Birth Success Rates Using Donor Eggs |
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Percentage of embryo transfers resulting in live births |
78.7% |
Know the success rates at your clinic before you do egg donation. See any clinic's IVF and/or egg donation success rates by following the links to the SART or CDC websites.
What is the cost of an egg donation pregnancy? |
Our list of currently available egg donors - You don't need to spend time and money on outside egg donor agencies - we do it all here.
How to become an egg donor - donors are compensated $7,000 per completed cycle.
Who should be treated with egg donation?
Egg donation (also called oocyte donation or ovum donation) can be used as an effective treatment for infertility of all causes except for women with infertility caused by an anatomic problem with the uterus, such as severe intrauterine adhesions.
Success rates with egg donation are high, particularly as compared to pregnancy rates in women with poor egg quality and quantity.
Donor egg IVF is generally used only in women with significantly diminished egg quantity and quality (poor ovarian reserve). This includes women with:- Premature ovarian failure (menopause)
- Very poor egg quality
- Poor response to ovarian stimulation
- Significantly elevated day 3 follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level
- Very low antral follicle counts on ultrasound
- Advanced female age, such as over about 39-40
- An appropriate egg donor is chosen by the infertile couple and thoroughly screened for infectious diseases and genetically transmissible conditions. Donors are generally given monetary compensation for going through the treatment. The egg donors can be known or anonymous to the recipient couple. Our clinic does most cases using one of our anonymous egg donors. See our egg donor list
- Consents are signed by all parties.
- The donor is stimulated with injected medications to develop multiple egg development. This allows us to perform in vitro fertilization with her eggs and the sperm of the infertile woman's male partner.
- Details about the subcutaneous injectable medications that are used for IVF
- Sample calendar of a "typical" egg donation cycle that shows the days of medications, procedures, etc.
- The infertile woman (recipient) is placed on medications:
- Lupron suppresses her own menstrual cycle
- Estrogen patches or pills to stimulate development of a receptive uterine lining
Making a receptive uterine lining
With egg donation, a lining thickness of 8mm or more is desired to maximize success rates. Usually it is not difficult to get a good lining thickness for egg donation, but sometimes we need a modified estrogen protocol to get sufficient thickness.
Ultrasound images of a uterus with a normal endometrial lining that is 11.2 mm thick
The endometrium is the landing pad - embryo implantation zone
Same image showing outer contour of uterus outlined red and "triple stripe" lining in green
Egg donation process
When the donor's follicles are mature, an egg aspiration procedure is performed to remove the eggs from her ovaries. The eggs are then fertilized in the laboratory with the sperm of the infertile woman's male partner.
The eggs are used fresh and are not frozen for later use. In the future, frozen donor eggs might be used routinely for egg donation. However, current egg freezing technology does not allow the same high success rates that are seen when using fresh eggs. However, freezing of leftover fertilized embryos is now routine, and success rates using frozen embryos are good.
Timing of donor egg fertilization with the recipient's uterine receptivity
Getting the proper timing in IVF with donor eggs between the uterine lining in the recipient and the developing embryos is critical for a successful donor egg IVF cycle.
This is accomplished by carefully controlling the start time of the drug (hormone) progesterone (also called P4) in the recipient woman. Not all egg donation clinics start progesterone at exactly the same time. Our protocol starts P4 on the evening before the donor's egg retrieval procedure.
The embryos develop in the laboratory for 3 to 5 days. Then, an embryo transfer procedure is done which places the embryos carefully in the recipient woman's uterus where they will hopefully implant and develop on to a successful birth.
Sample calendar for a donor egg treatment cycle
What is the history of IVF using donor eggs?
The process of human egg donation began in 1982 with the first live birth success. Currently, there are more than 15,000 embryo transfer procedures performed annually in the US using donor eggs, and many thousands more performed around the world.
The national donor eggs success rate is currently over 50% per transfer procedure, with some egg donation clinics specializing in donor eggs (such as ours) reporting egg donation success rates averaging over 70% per donor egg transfer procedure.
Being a recipient of donor eggs from out of town can be done with one trip to our clinic
More information about donor egg IVF
Email us with questions about our donor program
