Selecting Your Egg Donor

How do I select an egg donor? Selecting the person who will provide half your child’s genes is a huge decision and can feel nerve wracking. But if you have a large pool of donors to choose from, it can also be an exciting experience! FSC’s egg donor database contains profiles of prospective egg donors who have passed our strict selection criteria. Each donor has been carefully screened by medical experts, so you can be confident that you’re choosing the very best.

Key factors in selecting your egg donor:

• Decide whether you want an open, closed, or semi-closed donation.
• Decide if you want a first-time donor or an experienced donor.
• Choose an egg donor with a clean bill of health.
• Figure out your preferences in terms of ethnicity, looks, personality, interest, and intelligence.

Choosing the Type of Egg Donation

Before choosing who your donor will be, you first have to make an important decision about the type of egg donor arrangement you want to pursue. You have three options:

Open (known) donor: In a ‘known’ egg donor arrangement, all parties have agreed to disclose information about each other completely. The recipient and donor are open to the prospect of staying in contact. All identifying information is disclosed, including names, addresses, and other contact details.

Closed (anonymous) donor: In this case, neither you nor the donor has any identifying information about each other, and you cannot make any contact. Instead, your agency or clinic facilitates the entire arrangement. You will only view the donor’s profile.

Semi-open donor: In this case, the recipient parents and the egg donor will receive more information about each other, but details such as last names, addresses, and additional identifying information may be withheld.

Donation History

At Family Source Consultants, all egg donors must meet a strict set of criteria to be accepted into our egg donor program. Egg donors must be between the ages of 20-30 and must complete a series of medical and psychological tests. Your donor’s profile will show her donation history and experience.

Experience donors: Some recipient parents might prefer an experienced donor who has been through an egg retrieval with proven success. A repeat donor will usually have a higher fee than a first-time donor.

First time donors: Other recipient parents may find a first-time egg donor that checks all their boxes. If you’re open to selecting a first-time donor, you will have a much larger group of donors often, first time donors usually have greater availability to begin, and fees are typically lower.

Egg Donor’s Medical History

You’ll want to be sure that she isn’t a carrier or affected by any diseases, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV, or genetic disorders. Mental health is also an important factor.

Using an egg donation agency makes this easy. All egg donor candidates in our database have been screened for any family history of medical or genetic conditions. Their medical history and any test results, as well as their family’s medical history, will be shown on their profile.

Egg Donor’s Ethnicity or Looks

Our egg donor database offers a large selection of donors from many different backgrounds. This allows you to exercise your own preferences in terms of ethnicity and looks.

Some recipient parents may prefer a donor with features like their own, so there’s a better chance that their child resembles the mother or father. This may mean they prefer a certain hair color, eye color, or ethnic background.

The donor’s religious affiliations or cultural background may also be important. For example, recipients of the Jewish faith often require that their egg donor be Jewish as well.

Egg Donor’s Personality, Interests, and Intelligence

Every parent wants their child to be happy, sociable, and bright. Utilizing an egg donor database is a discreet way to compare lots of different personality types and find someone who matches your expectations.

Your donor’s profile may include:

• SAT scores
• Grade Point Average
• Tertiary education
• Degrees
• Occupation
• Occupations of her parents or siblings

This is a great help in foreseeing the level of intelligence your child might have.

You might also like to choose a donor whose interests are similar to your own. If you’re athletic, you might choose a donor who participates in certain sports. If you love the arts, you might choose a donor who loves music and books.

Finding an Egg Donor with Family Source Consultants

When you register for our egg donor database, you’ll see that every donor profile includes information about her appearance, education, family history, physical statistics, GPA, occupation, medical information, and questionnaire results.

You can begin searching by identifying basic traits, such as eye color, hair color, and race. From those results, you can narrow your search down to more specific preferences.

No matter which route you decide to take or who you choose to be your egg donor, you can be sure that FSC will be there to make the process as smooth as possible.

Related Blogs:

• Everything You Need to Know About the Egg Retrieval Process
• How to Choose Between Being a Known or Anonymous Egg Donor
• The Egg Donor Process for Recipient Parents
• View Our Upgraded Egg Donor Database! [2022]
• What to Expect During the Egg Donor Screening Process