Egg Donation FAQ

Young women who choose to donate their eggs are giving a powerful and invaluable gift to so many intended parents! Your decision to donate will be life-changing to the hopeful individuals and couples who choose you as their egg donor.

Egg Donation can help women who have undergone chemotherapy for cancer, have premature ovarian failure or are of advanced reproductive age and cannot use their own eggs to conceive. Same-sex male couples and single males can achieve parenthood thanks to a gestational carrier and the use of donor eggs.

A healthy woman of any ethnicity between 21 years and 30 years old may be qualified to be a PreciousEggs™ donor. Qualified donors will be compensated for their time and effort. Women who are interested in becoming an egg donor should fill out our initial application form and a member of our Egg Donation Team will notify you if you are eligible to move forward in the application process.

Egg donors need to be within a healthy weight range (BMI between 18 and 33) to prevent a potential increased risk for medical complications when participating in an egg donation cycle.

During the stimulation phase of egg donation, you can expect potential discomfort from blood tests and ultrasounds, which require pinprick injections. There may be some discomfort after the egg retrieval process as well. After being sedated before your egg retrieval, one of our experienced physicians will use a vaginal ultrasound to view your ovaries. They will use a thin needle to retrieve the eggs from your ovary, which takes about 15 to 20 minutes and may cause some menstrual-like cramping afterwards. We provide prescription medication to anyone experiencing discomfort after the procedure.

You might experience some discomfort during the stimulation and egg retrieval portions of the egg donation process. However, everyone’s experience is unique, so the level of discomfort may vary from person to person.

During the stimulation phase of egg donation, you can expect potential discomfort from blood tests and ultrasounds, which require pinprick injections. There may be some discomfort after the egg retrieval process as well. After being sedated before your egg retrieval, one of our experienced physicians will use a vaginal ultrasound to view your ovaries. They will use a thin needle to retrieve the eggs from your ovary, which takes about 15 to 20 minutes and may cause some menstrual-like cramping afterwards. We provide prescription medication to anyone experiencing discomfort after the procedure.

You can still donate if you use birth control pills or other forms of contraceptives such as an IUD or NuvaRing. The type of birth control may affect the timing of when you can cycle. However, we cannot accept egg donors that use Depo-Provera injections as a form of birth control.

The PreciousEgg Donation Program has three Delaware locations in Newark, North Wilmington, and Dover that serve donors in the Mid-Atlantic region. On the day of your donation, you will travel to our Newark office for your egg retrieval.

Newark - 4735 Ogletown-Stanton Road, MAP 2, Suite 3217, Newark, DE 19713

Wilmington - Silverside Medical Center, 2700 Silverside Road, Suite 2A, Wilmington, DE 19810

Dover - Eden Hill Medical Center, 200 Banning Street, Suite 240, Dover, DE 19904

If your donor profile is approved and you are eligible to come into the office for your first screening visit, you will be compensated with a $50 gift card at your first appointment. You will receive $7,950 after your first donation. For each subsequent donation you will be compensated $8,000.

There are no out-of-pocket medical expenses to donate with PreciousEggs. Our program covers all costs related to testing, medication and treatment, however, donors are not reimbursed for travel expenses.

Any woman interested in donating should look at her work, school, and/or personal schedule before deciding whether donating is right for them. Most appointments are scheduled for early in the morning, so a potential donor will have as little disruption to her schedule as possible. However, the egg retrieval procedure will require an entire day free.

Due to the time sensitive nature of the procedures, it is very important to make and keep appointments. We require donors to have reliable transportation to and from their appointments. Missed appointments may result in a donation cycle being delayed or canceled.

Because the PreciousEggs™ Donation Program works with anonymous donors, your identity will not be shared with recipient families. At the same time, we do not share information with egg donors about any potential recipients and whether their donation resulted in a successful pregnancy or birth.

However, we do offer donors the opportunity to have their identity disclosed to any potential children born from their donated eggs when the child reaches age 18. Donors should know that not every child born from donor eggs will want to know the identity of their egg donor, and not every recipient may share that information with their child.