Egg donation is a procedure involving a woman providing eggs either for assisted fertility for other women who suffer infertility problems or for medical research purposes. The first thing during egg donation is matching a donor and the recipient after which the necessary legal and preliminary medical criteria are handled to completion. The women involved then start a medical process that is necessary before egg harvesting stage is reached. Typically, the process of egg donation is made up of two phases as explained below.

1.  Ovarian hyperstimulation

This is the first step in the egg donation procedure. The donor receives hormonal drugs in specified intervals, which are necessary for causing the ovaries to generate several mature eggs in one menstrual cycle. During a woman’s menstrual cycle, there are several eggs, which start to mature but only one reaches fully maturity. While it is possible for a woman to donate this one mature egg, fertility specialists prefer to administer hormonal drugs to the donors in order to increase the chances of success.

Development of the egg is usually monitored through ultrasound scanning. This procedure allows a picture of the ovaries carrying the eggs to be seen on a television screen. The level of hormones in the blood can also be measured at the same time. When full maturity of the egg is confirmed, the donor and recipient are then taken to the second stage of egg donation procedure; egg retrieval.

2.  Egg retrieval

Also known as egg harvesting, this second phase involves removal of mature eggs from the donor to the recipient. This is usually carried out through a surgical procedure known as transvaginal ultrasound aspiration. If you are an egg donor, expect to spend about 60 hours in screening, testing as well as medical appointments during the entire course of the egg donation process. There are some women who choose to donate eggs when they are undergoing sterilization. In such cases, the most frequently used method for sterilization is laparoscopy, which makes any other operative procedure unnecessary when a woman is donating eggs.

Medications given

As stated earlier, hormonal drugs are usually administered to the donor. These hormonal drugs are of three types:

·         Drugs for suppressing the normal menstrual cycle administered using a nasal spray or injection which is given every day for a 28 day cycle.

·         Super ovulatory drugs. These are drugs for stimulating the growth as well as maturation of the eggs and are taken using daily tablets or injections. These injections have hormone which naturally stimulate the production of eggs in the ovaries.

·         A final hormone injection is given when the results of an ultrasound show that a sufficient number of eggs are about to attain full maturity. It is important to time this injection carefully (34-38 hours before egg harvesting).

While some of these drugs can be taken orally, majority of them should be given through injection. Your doctor can show you how to do it from the comfort of your own home. 

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There are many factors that are known to cause infertility in men and women. Some of these conditions can be treated and, therefore, allow a couple to have their own children. Unfortunately, there are some couples or individuals with whom infertility cause cannot be treated successfully and who have to resort to surrogacy. Surrogacy remains the only option of having a child for a woman who is rendered incapable of carrying a pregnancy. Surrogacy is yet to be embraced fully across the world as some nations refuse to accept it by judging its ethical or moral standing. Nevertheless, Bangalore and the larger India is one of the places in the world that people turn to for surrogacy services.

Ivf surrogacy in Bangalore has become a common thing even as tourists stream to the city to take advantage of the amazing opportunity. This is a tremendously important gift for people who desperately wish for a baby they can call their own. Now, what exactly goes on here? The procedure entails the insemination of a surrogate with the sperm of the male partner of female who cannot carry pregnancy. Perhaps, this is why the process raises a number of moral and ethical questions because the surrogate is the genetic mother of the baby born through this procedure. However, you may want to consider going for a center that does this in a different way; Ivf surrogacy that allows the specialists to create embryos from the sperm and eggs of the infertile couple which are then transferred to the uterus of the surrogate. This means that the child bears no genetic connection with the surrogate.

When is IVF surrogacy necessary?

For in vitro fertilization with a surrogate mother to occur, the woman concerned must have enough ovarian reserve, besides being rendered medically unfit to carry a pregnancy. The absence of a uterus, presence of any form of congenital deformity of the uterus, medical condition that makes pregnancy life threatening is some of the conditions that can be resolved with the help of IVF surrogacy in Bangalore.

Who finds the surrogate?

This is all dependent on the fertility center you choose to undergo Ivf surrogacy. Some fertility centers may help you in finding an appropriate surrogate. On the other hand, others leave the burden of finding a surrogate entirely to the patients. Your surrogate may be anyone you feel you can trust. It could be your close friends, family members or even a stranger that you have located through advertising or through surrogate agency. Since the surrogate is the one who carries the pregnancy to term, it is impossible for her to remain anonymous. The crucial thing is to take adequate time in choosing a surrogate in order to choose someone they are comfortable working with during this crucial 9 month period.

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