The best egg donor is one who closely resembles the egg recipient. My favorite choice is a younger sister.

Many of our patients will recruit their own egg donors. There is no anonymity, but medical privacy can be preserved. Some bonding often occurs between known egg donors and the recipient. The recipient is also available to help and assist the gg donor, as needed.

Alternatively, Olympia Women's Health continuously recruits egg donors from its obstetrical population. These are usually very fertile women who are relatively young, and have completed their own families. This donation process can be kept anonymous. Medical, genetic, and familiy histories as well as photographs are available for these egg donors in a binder at our office. the egg donor is compensated $2000/cycle for the inconveniences of egg donation.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires extensive communicable disease testing of egg donors. The cost of this testing ($497) is borne by the egg recipient.