Description

This option allows a couple to use eggs from a donor. A doctor can either fertilize those eggs with donor sperm or the partner's sperm.

Transcript

Well, what happens if you're infertile because you don't have Eggs? Everything that I have talked about so far involves taking your own eggs and using your own eggs but what if you don't have eggs? Where are we going to get eggs from? Well we have a technology where we can have volunteers who would allow us to give them medications so that they make eggs. We physically take their eggs out and that similar procedure under anesthesia, fertilize those eggs with sperm, the husband sperm, and then put those embryos now back into the uterus, which gives phenomenal pregnancy rates for couples who don't have eggs. Now clearly a compromise because you're losing some of the genetic contribution that the mother would have given but mom still gets to carry the baby, give birth to the baby, the birth record has her as the mother as the -- you know, the intended parent is the mother. It gives them very high chances of having a very healthy baby. And that's called Donor Egg Technology which is really reserved for people who are kind of running out of eggs or have a very poor quality of eggs.