A Short Introduction
Egg Donation In Parents Life
To participate in the egg donation process, you are invited to fill in an egg donor profile. Before filling in the application form, please, read the requirements to an egg donor.
You Are Invited to Fill in the Egg Donor Profile
Egg Donation In Parents Life
The egg donation is one of the most important aspect of the modern assisted reproductive technologies (ART). It costs several times less than a surrogacy. Moreover, that is not the extent of its importance – egg donation is just as much important as it is demanded. The difference is that by taking a decision to become an egg donor, a woman does not expose her body to radical and long-term changes as in the case of a surrogacy. In addition, given the current development of the ART in Ukraine, all possible risks are minimized. Egg retrieval procedure can be done repeatedly. However, to preserve woman’s reproductive health, a maximum of 8 attempts of controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) for life is recommended. A repeated attempt of the COS can be done not earlier than 2-3 months after the previous one.
To participate in the egg donation program, you are invited to fill in the egg donor profile. Before you fill in the application form, read the requirements for egg donors below. After the approval of your candidate as an egg donor, your information will be included in our database. If the intended parents select your application to participate in the egg donation program, we will notify you immediately.
For the participation in the egg donation program, we offer an average of 15,000 hryvnia per ovarian puncture. However, this fee may be revised on your request depending on the number and quality of eggs produced during the ovarian puncture. The fee is paid at the time of completion of the ovarian puncture procedure.
An egg donor undergoes all medical examinations in the IVF clinic. We also cover transport and in some cases accommodation expenses in Kiev for the time of the ovarian puncture procedure.
We are sincerely looking forward to cooperating with you!
The application of ART in Ukraine
The application of ART in Ukraine is regulated by the Order of the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine No. 787 “On Approval of the Procedure of Assisted Reproductive Technologies Application”, dated September 9, 2013. This procedure regulates the relations between the patients (women and men) and the health institutions that provide the appliance of the assisted reproductive techniques and specifies the mechanism and the conditions for their application.
In this Procedure, under the ART are understood methods of infertility treatment in which the manipulations with the reproductive cells, some or all stages of their preparation, fertilization processes and embryo development up to their transfer into the patient’s uterus are carried out in conditions In Vitro – the technique of the experiment or other manipulations in a special laboratory container or in a controlled environment outside a living organism.
Egg donation is a procedure by which an egg donor by a written voluntary consent provides her sex cells – gametes (egg cells) – for a use by others in the infertility treatment applying ART techniques.
Egg donors can be:
- A female person,
- Close relatives,
- Anonymous voluntary donors,
- A patient of the ART programs, who by a written voluntary consent gives to the recipient some of her eggs.
Egg donors requirements:
- Woman aged 18 to 36 years old,
- Having a healthy child, born in a natural way,
- Absence of negative phenotypic manifestations,
- Satisfactory physical health,
- Absence of contraindications to participate in the egg donation program,
- Absence of hereditary diseases,
- Absence of bad habits – addiction, alcoholism and substance abuse.
Become an Egg Donor
The Mandatory Testing Of An Egg Donor
The mandatory testing of the egg donor includes:
- Therapist report about the state of physical health and the absence of contraindications to carry a pregnancy,
- Determination of the blood group and Rh factor (it is valid for life when indicated in woman’s passport),
- Complete blood count,
- Coagulation profile,
- Blood tests for syphilis, HIV, hepatitis B and C (valid for 3 months),
- Blood tests (IgM, IgG) for toxoplasmosis, chlamydia, cytomegalovirus and rubella,
- Bacterioscopical analysis of discharge from three places (vagina, urethra and cervical canal),
- Cytological examination of smears from the cervix,
- General gynecological examination,
- Pelvic ultrasound examination,
- Blood analysis on the Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), prolactin (PRL), follitropin (FSH), lutropin (LH), progesterone (P), and estradiol (E2).
The amount of additional testing of the egg donor (if indicated) includes:
- Examination of the uterus and fallopian tubes (hysterosalpingography, sonosalpingoscopy, laparoscopy, hysteroscopy),
- Colposcopy,
- Endometrial biopsy,
- Bacteriological examination of samples taken from urethra and cervical channel,
- Blood tests for testosterone (T), cortisol (C), thyroxine (T3), triiodothyronine (T4), thyrotropin (TSH) and growth hormone (GH),
- Determination of blood glucose levels,
- Examination on the sperm and antiphospholipid antibodies presence,
- Screening for the presence of thyroglobulin and thyroid peroxidase antibodies as well as antithyroid microsomal antibodies,
- Examination for signs of antiphospholipid syndrome and other disorders of the immune system,
- Screening for urogenital and TORCH-infection,
- Conclusions of other experts on indications (determined by the physician),
- Karyotyping, medical and genetic counselling and other molecular genetic studies,
- Fluorography,
- Ultrasound of internal organs, thyroid, mammary glands for women under 40 years old and mammography for women over 40 years old,
- Blood biochemistry: kidney tests, liver function tests, total bilirubin, protein fractions and glucose.
If identified diseases in the presence of the indications for ART the revealed pathology treatment is carried out.
The algorithm of the egg donation program:
- Synchronization of menstrual cycles or Controlled Ovarian Stimulation (COS) in the previous cycle, followed by fertilization with the sperm of the husband or a donor and embryo freezing,
- Preparation of a recipient to the cryo embryo transfer for embryo-transfer in a scheduled menstrual cycle,
- IVF techniques, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI, if indicated),
- Egg donor supervision by an OB/GYN before the next menstrual period (about 2 weeks) expected for the egg donor cycle,
- Egg cells can be vitrified for later use in subsequent cycles.
Please, Fill In the Application Form Completely
Egg Donor Profile
This profile enables an egg donor to provide all the necessary information that will help us to evaluate you as a potential egg donor. Please, try to fill in the application form completely. Some of the information that is not anonymous can be communicated to the intended parents who, in their turn, at its discretion, may transfer it to any of their children born with the help of IVF with an egg donor. In this regard, we ask you to be as open and honest in your answers as possible. All details remain anonymous. Clicking on the icon on the right you must download, read and accept the 
Personal Data Use Agreement.
Attention! Before you fill in the egg donor profile, study the requirements for egg donors hereinabove. Applications without photos will not be considered. You need to send 5 photos in high resolution – face, profile, full-length and photos with your child. If you are unable to upload photos to the website, you can send them directly to our E-mail – info@parents-life.com
Thank you for your attention to Parents Life and the issue to which we have devoted ourselves!
Within this egg donor profile you are required to provide the following accompanying pictures:
- Pictures of yourself/partner/kids/family,
- Additional pictures (preferably 5-10) to be sent through additional pictures E-mail.
Parents Life will keep all of the information on your egg donor profile confidential except for purposes related to egg donation and/or surrogacy programs. Therefore, this information will be shared in part with intended parents, physicians, lawyers, and mental health providers once needed.
This egg donor profile may take about 10 minutes to complete.