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Donor Egg IVF: When It May Be Indicated
The age and quality of a woman's eggs greatly affect her ability to become pregnant and to carry a pregnancy to term. Women are born with all of the eggs they will ever produce. After a woman begins to menstruate, an immature egg matures each month and is released from the ovaries if a woman is fertile. As women age, the quantity and quality of the eggs decrease. By age 35, most women have a substantial decrease in the quality of eggs produced; and the chance of obtaining a successful pregnancy starts to decrease significantly. Using donor eggs overcomes the problem of decreased egg quality and/or quantity due to age or to other medical conditions and allows many women who could not become pregnant with their own eggs to become pregnant very easily using eggs from a donor.
Success Rate Update
The donor egg IVF success rate per retrieval for 2007 was 55.3%. As of February 2008, the success rate per retrieval was 63.7% over the past six months.
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Donor Egg IVF Program Coordinator
Jennifer Machovina, R.N., B.S.N. is a graduate of the Villanova University nursing program. She has worked as a reproductive endocrinology and infertility nurse specialist since 2000 with a concentration in donor egg IVF and donor embryo. Prior to entering the REI field, she worked at Washington Hospital Center as a labor & delivery and postpartum nurse.
Ms. Machovina has been instrumental in advancing the donor egg IVF program at GIVF, including launching a donor recruitment campaign in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. Machovina considers her most important nursing role to be that of patient advocate. In addition to her daily nursing and director duties, she helps run the donor egg IVF parents support group.
She is an avid reader, a fondness she shares with her two children.
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