The Genetics & IVF Institute Donor Egg IVF Program

GIVF offers the largest, immediately available pool of

highly-screened donors in the United States.

Offering Patients Their Choice of Outstanding Egg Donors

Local, National, and International Patients May Begin Treatment Immediately

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For more than fifteen years, the Genetics & IVF Institute (GIVF) has provided patients a highly successful Eonor Egg IVF program that has achieved one of the largest number of Donor Egg IVF pregnancies in the world. GIVF understands that patients who use Donor Egg IVF have one goal in mind: they want to get pregnant. GIVF gives patients maximum control over their Donor Egg IVF options and helps patients begin the process quickly - often in as little as one month.

Using medical and personal profiles, childhood and adult photos, audio interviews and recommendations from our Donor Egg IVF team, patients can select their own donor from a list of approximately 150 available, diverse donors. GIVF offers the largest fully-screened selection of donors in the US. Our pool of donors includes donors with advanced degrees in our "Doctoral Donor" program and other especially accomplished women. Each donor meets the highest medical, genetic, and educational screening standards.

At GIVF, all donors are screened by our own Donor Egg IVF team - never by outside agencies. By screening our own donors, our staff of geneticists, reproductive endocrinologists, and nurses gets to know the donors as individuals, not just as profiles on a page. That knowledge helps us to recommend matches for our patients, but in the end, the choice of a donor is always up to the patient.

GIVF's Genetics Experts Enhance Our Donor Egg IVF Program

GIVF's extraordinary expertise in genetics provides Donor Egg IVF patients with a benefit not available at most other Donor Egg IVF treatment facilities. Every donor is screened by a board certified geneticist and Donor Egg IVF patients have the opportunity to meet with one of our certified genetics counselors. The counselor will review the patient's family history, the biological father's family history, and the donor's history and answer any questions the patient may have about heredity.

Our Donor Egg IVF coordinators are available to answer your questions, arrange a telephone or on-site appointment, or provide you with a full package of information on our Donor Egg IVF program. To reach a Donor Egg IVF coordinator, please call 800.552.4363, extension 250.

Donor Egg IVF is Extraordinarily Successful Even for Patients Unable to Conceive Through Regular IVF Treatment.

Donor Egg IVF at Genetics & IVF Institute is phenomenally successful for the vast majority of women. GIVF accepts Donor Egg IVF patients up to age 55.

Donor Egg IVF is a very easy treatment to undergo, since it is far simpler to do a recipient embryo transfer cycle than a typical full IVF or ICSI cycle using a woman's own eggs. Donor Egg IVF cycles normally include a match of one donor to one recipient (sole-match) or sometimes one donor to two recipients (split-match). Some Donor Egg IVF recipients use known donors who are usually friends or family members.

The combination of outstanding effectiveness, when Donor Egg IVF treatment is delivered using high quality donors by the highly experienced GIVF team, and the comparative simplicity and comfort of treatment ensures that the Donor Egg IVF experience is very different for most patients from previous frustrations with IVF or ICSI using their own eggs.

We are fully aware that in choosing an egg donor, you are not merely aiming to achieve a pregnancy, but also making choices about the genetic elements of your future child. When you select the GIVF Donor Egg IVF program, you can be assured that:

• Our donors are rigorously screened by GIVF -- an organization with nearly 20 years of experience in genetic diagnosis and treatment and an entire clinical genetics division at its disposal. Donors of the highest personal and educational standards are the only ones eligible to enter our screening processes.
• GIVF's certified genetics counselors are available to meet with you, review your family history, and the donor's history and answer any questions you may have about heredity.
• Extensive information is provided on all donors, and you - not the program - make all the final decisions on the donor to be used for your family. GIVF staff members are available to assist you in making the right choice of donor for your family, but the choice is always yours.
• Services will be provided promptly and conveniently. For many patients, the time from an initial contact with GIVF to initiation of their donor egg IVF cycle can be a little as one month or less. Patients from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, and many other locations discover that they need be in the Washington, D.C. area for only 1-2 days in most cases for a full donor egg IVF treatment cycle.
• Intake consultations may be performed at our facilities near Washington, D.C. (Fairfax) or by telephone. Donor selection may also be accomplished in person at Fairfax or by donor selection material to you.
• Our vast experience assures outstanding rates of success for donor cycles, including both fresh and subsequent frozen embryo cycles (if pregnancy is not immediately achieved).
• Confidentiality is absolutely rigorous and never violated under any circumstances.
• Donor Egg IVF services may be combined where appropriate with other specialized or unique GIVF programs like MicroSort for gender selection or to avoid genetic disease or the Pregnancy Guarantee™ Program Donor Egg IVF treatment plan (for more information about MicroSort, please read the MicroSort section of our Website).

Choosing an egg donor program is a decision with life-long implications. That is why so many sophisticated and informed patients place their confidence in our world-famous Donor Egg IVF program.

Patients come to our Institute from around the world for this special treatment, and we are experienced in minimizing inconveniences and time away from home for patients from other U.S. locations and from abroad.

GIVF eliminates delays and administrative barriers so that patients can proceed to treatment very quickly. Patients need not attend seminars before entering our program and in many cases they can begin a treatment cycle within weeks, not months. We are generally able to meet the needs of the most discriminating patients immediately, and are often able to provide appropriate donors in highly complex and special situations.

Please call 800.552.4363 or 703.698.7355, or e-mail givf@givf.com to experience the difference that GIVF's Donor Egg IVF program can make in the life of you and your future child.

For more information, please see the FAQ section below.

DONOR EGG IVF PROGRAM: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)

WHO CAN BE A RECIPIENT?

In general, any woman with a medical or genetic indication for using an egg donor can be a recipient, if there are no medical contraindications to pregnancy. Our current age limit is 55 years. The decision to utilize donor eggs is made in association with GIVF staff and consultants. If a male factor exists, donor egg IVF with ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection into the eggs) is also available. Non-surgical sperm aspiration (NSA) can be used in association with ICSI if the husband has a vasectomy and wishes to avoid surgical reconstruction, or if he has certain other causes of absence of sperm in the ejaculate.

WHO ARE OUR EGG DONORS?

We have made a huge effort to provide a large selection of screened donors. They are primarily recruited from colleges and suburban communities, including many young women with Doctoral level educations. Information available to you on all donors includes physical characteristics (height, weight, hair color and type, body build, and blood type), ethnic background, educational record, occupation, special interests, audio interviews, childhood photos, and adult photos. You can view our donor list here and read personal stories from three of our egg donors here.

HOW IS THE DONOR EGG IVF PROCEDURE DONE?

Recipient couples are asked to select one or more donors whom they find suitable. One of the selected egg donors will be offered to a recipient couple upon availability of the egg donor. Final approval of the specific selection is always made by the recipient couple. The Institute staff will coordinate the cycles of the donor and recipient to accomplish fresh embryo transfer whenever possible. Synchronization of cycles includes using a series of medications to facilitate a hospitable uterine environment for transfer of embryos. All viable eggs produced in a single donor cycle are inseminated, and all embryos belong to the recipient couple. If there are embryos in excess of the number for safe transfer, cryopreservation of additional embryos is available and is strongly advised. Cryopreserved embryos can be used for subsequent attempts at pregnancy whether or not the fresh transfer is successful.

Click here to schedule an appointment to learn more. You can also contact GIVF at 800.552.4363 or 703.698.0418, or by e-mail at givf@givf.com.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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How to Become an Egg Donor