Embryo donation is a process utilized when a couple cannot conceive through IVF technology using their own egg and sperm. This could be because there are problems associated with either the recipient's egg or the recipient's sperm or both. In cases such as these, the couple can choose to adopt an embryo formed from a donor egg which is fertilized using unrelated donor sperm.
In the embryo donation process, a couple will receive a non-autologous embryo. It simply means that the couple who receive the embryo will not be genetically connected to either the egg or the sperm donor. You are adopting a fertilized and frozen embryo where both the egg and sperm come from unrelated donors. Embryo donation can, therefore, be considered as a third party donation. In the embryo donation process, the embryos are created using a donor egg and an unrelated sperm.
IVF methods are utilized to create an embryo from a donor egg and donor sperm. The fertilized embryo thus formed will be placed in the uterus of the recipient woman who will then be taken care of through her pregnancy and childbirth. The child will then be considered as the child of the mother who delivers the child. The principle followed is the same as that involved in sperm or egg donation. Embryo donation is often done in an anonymous process to protect the privacy of all the parties involved.
The use of donated embryos may be considered by women with untreatable infertility that involves both partners, untreatable infertility in a single woman, recurrent pregnancy loss thought to be related to the embryo, and genetic disorders affecting one or both partners.
If you are of advanced age, if other IVF techniques have failed to give positive results for you and you are unable to adopt due to preference given to younger couples you should give this technique some serious thought.
