Completing your Egg Donor Application: What to Expect

Thinking about becoming an egg donor, but not sure what the application process involves? The egg donor application helps FSC and hopeful intended parents get to know you better. The application involves details about your background, education, medical history, and your personality. This helps our team ensure that the egg donation process runs safe and smoothly for both the donor and the intended parents.

• The application helps match the egg donor to intended parents that align with their personality and background.
• Photos are used to help your personality shine in your application.
• It ensures that you are medically, physically, and emotionally prepared to donate.
• Every question needs to be answered honestly to ensure a successful match.

General Information

As you’d expect with any application, you’ll have to give details about who you are and how best to contact you. We’ll need to know where you are living and how far you are willing to travel because our recipients are all over the US (and the world!).

We’ll also want to know whether you’ve participated in other egg donation programs.

Physical Information

Most parents have at least some hopes of what they want their future offspring to look like. Some IPs will hope that their child will look a little like them in terms of ethnicity, eye color, hair color, height, and build, so they may look for a donor that shares some of their own characteristics. Understandably, many parents would like their child to look like he or she is biologically related to them.

Your application will ask questions about:

• Hair (color, length, texture)
• Whether you have freckles or dimples
• Size and weight
• Dental health

We ask donors to give these details about their physical features so that we can provide our Intended Parent with as many options as possible.

Photos (at least 10)

Choosing the right photographs for your egg donor profile are essential. As we explained above, egg donation is *not* a beauty contest but rather a way for IPs to find someone whose features they’d like to see in their offspring.

The other important thing about photos is that they can give your potential IPs some insight into your personality! Your photos should reflect who you are, what you enjoy doing, and how you would like to be perceived.

Photos of yourself as a baby and growing up are just as helpful as recent photos. Your IPs would love to have an idea of what their little one might look like.

Personal Information

We’ll also ask about things like your occupation and which languages you speak. Again, this helps IPs to get a clear picture of your personality and background. We might also want to know your religious affiliation and sexual orientation and a few details about your partner (if you have one).

Education Information

At FSC, one of the criteria for becoming an egg donor is to have a minimum of a GED. This certifies that you have high school-level academic skills.

We’ll ask about your high school GPA and other relevant scores where relevant, including college GPA, ACT, SAT, and MCAT. Higher education is a plus; IPs love to know that their egg donor can demonstrate critical thinking and is motivated to learn.

Reproductive History

Details about your reproductive history are also very important. After all, it’s crucial that we have a reasonable expectation that you are able to produce healthy eggs!

You’ll be asked about:

• Whether you have been pregnant before or had a miscarriage or an abortion.
• Your current health status and birth control methods.
• If you have had children.
• Any complications during your pregnancy and/or delivery.
• Whether any of your biological children have health issues.

Personal Health and Medical Information

Here’s where we need to get really specific. Your eggs will reflect your health, which makes it absolutely crucial.
You’ll answer questions about:

• Health conditions you may have (or have had).
• Medications you are taking.
• Previous pap smears and whether you’ve had any abnormal results.
• Mental health and whether you have had any psychiatric issues.
• If you partake in smoking, alcohol, and drug use.
• Any STDs that you or your partner may have had.
• If you worked in the sex industry at any time.
• If you have had any piercings, blood transfusions, or an organ transplants.

Genetic History (Family)

All prospective egg donors will undergo specific testing to rule out any genetic diseases they may pass down to their offspring. With that in mind, we would still like you to answer questions about your genetic history as honestly as possible such as:

• Any specific illness, disability, or health conditions in your family.
• Any history of familial drug/alcohol use.

One of the requirements of becoming an egg donor is that you know at least one-half of your genetic make-up.

Questions About What You Expect From Your Egg Donor Journey

We want to know your expectations for becoming an egg donor with us! Tell us about your history in egg donation (if applicable) and how successful it was. Let us know your thoughts on your ‘ideal’ recipients and whether you’d like to be an anonymous or open donor.

You can also take this time to write a note to your future recipient parents and any children that may be born using your eggs.

What Happens Next?

Phew – that’s a lot of detail! But it’s all very important that we get to know you as well as possible. Once you have completed your application, one of our egg donor coordinators will review it. If you meet the criteria to become an egg donor, we will contact you to discuss the next steps!

Have more questions before you get started on your application? No problem! Contact the FSC team, and we’ll be happy to help.

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