Egg Donation Archives | Bright Expectations

Egg Donation brightexpectations May 15, 2020

How Will The Egg Donation Process Affect My Body?

Egg donation is a wonderful, tangible way to help someone achieve their family dreams. People decide to donate their eggs for a number of reasons, but always out of the generous desire to help another family grow. Understandably, potential donors may have lots of questions about the donation process. In particular, those looking to donate their eggs often wonder how the process will affect their bodies. Compared to surrogacy, where a person offers to carry another parent’s child to term, egg donation has significantly lower physical, emotional, and time requirements for the donor. However, choosing to become a donor is still a major decision, and it’s important to be informed. We’ll discuss some of the main physical effects of the egg donation process here, so you can feel confident in your decision to help someone achieve their dreams of parenthood.

College Students, Egg Donation brightexpectations February 15, 2020

How To Donate Your Eggs As A Full-Time Student

One of the most common questions we get here at Bright Expectations, is how to manage a full-time school schedule with the responsibilities of egg donation. While egg donation is one of the quickest ways to make a significant dent in your college loan debt, it is a commitment that requires some planning on your end to make it work. Luckily, we’re here to help you figure it out! Many of our best donors are college students, so we’ve put together this guide to making egg donation work as a full-time student.

Ready to Donate? Click Here to Apply Now!

Egg Donation, Intended Parents brightexpectations January 16, 2020

Having Children As A Same-Sex Male Couple – How Does It Work?

same sex couple discussing having children

When it comes to having children as a same-sex male couple, there are a few different paths you can take. Many gay couples choose to adopt or foster children, but what happens when you want to have a child that is biologically yours?

Here at Bright Expectations, we can help make that dream a reality through egg donation and gestational surrogacy.

College Students, Egg Donation brightexpectations December 16, 2019

Preparing to Donate Your Eggs – How to Get Ready for Egg Donation

woman reading about preparing to donate eggs

Donating your eggs is a great way to make a little extra income and help a family in need, but requires some preparation on the part of the egg donor. What exactly do you need to do while preparing to donate your eggs?

The Egg Donation Process

It’s best to start preparing to donate before registering with an agency. Preparing early ensures you’re ready to start as soon as you’re accepted. After you complete your registration and are accepted into our exclusive donor database, the first step in the donation process is getting matched with intended parents. When someone chooses you from our database, one of our case managers will get in touch and move the process forward.

Once you’ve been chosen as an egg donor, we’ll bring you in for a series of appointments to make sure you’re healthy and ready to donate. These visits will involve various medical, psychological, genetic, and, of course, fertility screenings.

When you’re cleared by our medical team, you’ll start on birth control pills to sync up with the cycle of the egg recipient. As you get closer to the egg retrieval date, our doctors will start you on a series of hormone injections that will promote ovulation. During the course of these injections, we’ll determine when the best time to retrieve your eggs is. Once the egg retrieval operation is finished, your part in the process is complete.

Egg Donation, Fertility brightexpectations November 19, 2019

Who Needs An Egg Donor Anyway?

Couple who might use egg donor for assisted pregnancy

There is a common misconception that donor eggs are only useful to a small demographic of people that are trying to conceive. Many people think that gay couples or women over 45 are the only people that use donor eggs during the IVF process. As one of the world’s top egg donation clinics, we’ve seen that there are many reasons one might use a donor egg to make their parenting dreams a reality.

Donor eggs can be a great solution for assisted pregnancy for all types of couples and individuals. At Bright Expectations, we’ve helped many different kinds of people achieve their parenting dreams. Here are some common situations where a donor egg was the right choice for assisted pregnancy:

Egg Donation brightexpectations October 14, 2019

Ready to be an Egg Donor? – What Should You Look for in an Agency?

young woman researching egg donation agencies on her phone

Donating your eggs can be a tricky process to navigate, especially if you’re donating for the first time. How do you make sure that you’ll find the best egg donation agency for your needs? At Bright Expectations, we want you to be informed, comfortable, and excited about the egg donation process from start to finish.

As an egg donor, doing your research is critical when choosing an agency. What exactly should you be looking for when choosing an egg donation agency? Obviously, this question will always depend on what’s most important to you, but here are some things that we’ve noticed make a big difference for donors that choose Bright Expectations.

Egg Donation, Fertility brightexpectations August 15, 2019

In Depth: Egg Donor Matching Process

egg donation matching process

If you are considering donating your eggs, you may want to know a little more about the process of being matched with prospective parents.

Much care is taken to respect your privacy and needs as well as create the right environment for interested parties to find your information. People seek egg donors for a variety of reasons, but there are commonalities among those who are looking for a donor. Also, the matching process tends to be similar across agencies.

Here’s a rundown of the matching process plus a little about why egg donors are needed.

Egg Donation brightexpectations July 2, 2019

My Future Fertility: A Sneak Peek at our Latest Ebook

Donating your eggs to help someone else start a family is a rewarding experience in more ways than one. Have you thought about it?

If so, you probably have many questions about the process, its safety, and the impact on your own future fertility. We answer those questions and more in our new ebook – My Future Fertility!

College Students, Egg Donation brightexpectations June 27, 2019

Can Becoming an Egg Donor Help with Student Debt?

If you are a woman between the ages of 20 and 30 with student loan debt, you may have a source of income that you haven’t thought of. Becoming an egg donor for those wishing to start families and unable to do so on their own can help both the aspiring family and you.

Higher education costs have skyrocketed. Students and graduates are facing loans that may take decades to pay off. If you can knock some of those payments out now, you will pay less in interest due to the shortened life of the loan and take some of the stress out of your life.

Egg Donation Bright Expectations Contributor May 29, 2019

Breaking Down the Egg Donation Process: Ovarian Stimulation

If you’re thinking about becoming an egg donor, you may be wondering about the details of the process. Egg donation consists of several steps that lead from applying to become a donor to the egg retrieval itself.

Once you have been matched and medically cleared, you will be scheduled for a stimulation cycle. Before eggs can be retrieved, your ovaries must be stimulated to mature a number of eggs all at once, unlike a normal ovarian cycle. Normally, your body brings one or sometimes two eggs to maturity each month to be released at ovulation.

To increase the chances of creating a viable embryo through in vitro fertilization, we want to be able to retrieve as many eggs as possible. To prepare for that, we perform ovarian stimulation to mature multiple eggs simultaneously.

Category: Egg Donation