Egg donation, embryo donation and sperm donation
All - egg donation, embryo donation and sperm donation are allowed in Estonia by law.
- For Egg Donation Recipients->
- Choosing Egg Donors->
- Education level
- Viruses
- Blood Type
- Results of Egg Donation Usage in 2008,2009,2010(20.01.2011)->
- About Sperm Donation->
For egg donation recipients:
Donated eggs are useful in cases when ovaries of recipient
are not producing eggs (ovaries pathological dysfunction, malfunction or
increased age ) or if repeatedly were unsuccessful cycles of artificial
reproduction - no good embryos developed (no high quality eggs to transfer into uterus) and no
chance to become pregnant. Also if there is present higher risk for
genetically transmitted diseases and defects in offspring to appear (You can read more about egg donation indications also in wikipedia). Information about our different egg donation programs.
Key points:
1. No waiting list.
2.Our egg donors are between the ages of
21-33 years old and:
-they must have good family medical history. An egg donor who has a history
of cancer, heart disease, Down syndrome in the family, alcoholism, drug
abuse, psychological problems etc, will not be accepted into our egg donation program;
- HIV, WAR, hepatitis, chlamydiosis, trichomonosis negative.
3. Our egg donation program is anonymous. The recipient can not see a photograph of the egg donor or know her name and address, but can read a short history of her educational background, family's history. We have age limit for recipients - 50 years old. No identifying information regarding the recipient couple is provided to the donor.
4. Our egg donors are covered by their own health insurance to cover any unforeseen medical problems that result from ovarian stimulation and/or egg retrieval.
5. No extra costs for freezing and storing the embryos for 1 year. We freeze the embryos for 7 years. After failed cycle recipient need to wait 3 month before she can try again.
6. We have cryopreserved donor sperm of different donors according to international standards.
Choosing Egg Donors:
Recipient may choose donors she likes the most.
We ask to choose 3 donors instead of 1, so we have more opportunities to choose the best of them (best meaning an egg donor whose cycle can be matched with recipient’s cycle, donor with whom we had best results previously, who has already donated etc). Then we will see which one of these 3 you chose is the best and we will use her cells. So please send us 3 codes of donors you like (you can see the codes in the egg donors table we will send). Information about the terms used in the selection table:
1. Donor's EDUCATION LEVEL:
Keyword "high" in the list of donors stands for university study (student at the moment) or university degree (3 or 4 years of study = bachelor degree). Keyword "school" stands for 12 years of basic and secondary education. Our donors must have at least 12 years of school background (graduated secondary school).
2. Viruses:
Keyword “negative” in the list of donors means donor does not have specified antibodies to that virus, positive means she does have.
In different countries there are different practices. For example in some countries (like Finland) people are not tested for all these viruses named in the list of donors of Clinic Elite because 50-85% of population has those viruses. We, as a responsible medical institution, just want to be honest and tell our patients all we know about our donors. About importance of having or not having these viruses, you should ask from your personal GP.
3. Egg Donor's Blood Type:
You may choose a donor you like most, you do not have to consider blood type etc. unless you consider it important for yourself - from medical point of view that is not important for us. Blood group could be important for people who already have antibodies or had some kind of group/rhesus conflict previously.
Results (statistics) of egg donor usage in our Clinic:
Year of 2008 ( egg donation ):
- In Clinic Elite there was performed 72 embryo transfers (ET) after egg donation - fresh 61 and frozen 11 (FET).
Clinical pregnancy rate (heart activity positive) - 39 (54,2%). - Delivered 35 women from 39 (48,6%). Total number of children: 43 (23 boys and 20 girls). One child died at 31 weeks of gestation because of recipient's uterus rupture.
- From 39 clinical pregnancies - 2 missed abortions, one ruptura uteri at 18 weeks of pregnancy, one medical abortion at 18 weeks of pregnancy (malformation of foetus).
Additionally to 39 clinical pregnancies we got 6 missed abortions where was not found embryo heart activity (we don't accept them in the pregnancy rate) - all those pregnancies terminated by spontaneous or medical abortion.
Year of 2009 ( egg donation ):
- In Clinic Elite there was performed 68 embryo transfers (ET) after egg donation - fresh 56 and frozen 12 (FET).
- From fresh 56 ET pregnancy rate was 29 (51,8%), delivered 16 women (28,6%).
- From frozen 12 ET pregnancy rate was 5 (41,7%), delivered 2 women (16,7%).
- From fresh ET one women loose twins at 23 week of gestation, one loose pregnancy at 12 weeks, one at 9 weeks, one got ectopic pregnancy and was operated, 9 women had missed abortion 4-7 weeks of gestation.
- From frozen ET was one ectopic pregnancy, two missed abortion and 2 womens had delivered.
- All togethere delivered 18 women. Total number of children: 24 (15 boys and 9 girls). Twins rate was 33,3%.
Year of 2010 ( egg donation ):
- In Clinic Elite there was performed 77 embryo transfers (ET) after egg donation - fresh 56 and frozen 21 (FET).
- From fresh 56 ET pregnancy rate was 30 (53,6%).
- Frozen 21 ET, pregnancy rate 9 (42,9%).
- Up to end of the year number of ongoing pregnancies was 26. We still don't have all results of ET from end of the year.
Year of 2011 ( egg donation ):
- In Clinic Elite there was performed 113 embryo transfers (ET) after egg donation - fresh 73 and frozen 40 (FET).
- From fresh 73 ET pregnancy rate was 34 (46,6%).
- Frozen 40 ET, pregnancy rate 17 (42,5%).
About sperm donation
Use of donor sperm should be taken into consideration in cases when the husband's sperm doesn't contain spermatozoon at all or its concentration of them is low, motility reduced and member of defective forms great or husband have inherited diseases.
Our sperm donors are healthy, mostly married men in the age between 24-39 years. Most of them have higher education . The majority of donors have children.
According to the Estonian rules, all sperm donors have passed their compulsory analyses of sexually transmitted diseases. The security of inherited diseases has also been investigated.
Donor sperm is not used before 6 months after the delivering all control analyses are normal.
According to standards of the European Tissue banks Association, donor sperm is being preserved only frozen. Sperm Donors are anonymous in Estonia.