Best clinics for donor egg?

[Anonymous]

Any recommendations for donor egg? We're not sure if we're doing fresh or frozen yet. Right now we're looking into ORM, RBA and Shady Grove. Any other recommendations?

[Anonymous]

We went abroad to the Czech Republic. Easy and inexpensive and we got beautiful boy/girl twins.

[Anonymous]

Shady Grove has the best shared risk program, no doubt. We looked at RMANJ where I did an IVF cycle, but unlike Shady Grove, they don't offer a full money-back guarantee if you're not successful. I wasn't a patient at SG before this, and I don't love the philosophy of the practice compared to the two other places I've been, but I will probably feel very differently if we get the outcome we're looking fro.
I considered ORM because they have such good success rates, but the travel didn't make sense. (I think if you're looking for Asian donors, though, ORM might be better.)

[Anonymous]

I went to Shady Grove. I now have 2 beautiful kids from donor egg, so it obviously worked out well for me!

[Anonymous]

ORM or RBA. Much better success rates than SG. The travel isn't a big deal for donor egg; you only go once or twice for a day or two.

[Anonymous]

We did Shared Risk at SG. We were very lucky to get frozen Asian eggs.

[Anonymous]

We did Shared Risk at SG and selected from their database of fresh donors and split the eggs with one other couple. If you go the fresh egg route, my recommendation would be to explore their database early and often to get a feel for what kind of donors they have and which donors are in high demand and get selected quickly because, in the end, you may need to make a quick decision to lock in your first choice. We looked at the database for about 6 months and when we were ready to pick, another couple selected her first, so we had to quickly lock in as the #2 position on the share.

SG also has a relationship with Donor Egg Bank USA, which is a frozen egg bank. The selection was slightly larger because donors were from all over the US. Occasionally, though not often, I saw fresh egg donors show up in the frozen egg database. You know in advance how many eggs you will be getting, whereas, with fresh, the number of eggs is uncertain, and you will split them with the couple who is sharing the donor, if you are doing a share. That said, my recollection is that the number of frozen eggs you receive is comparable to the number you get in a shared situation. Also with frozen there is no guarantee that they will survive the unthawing process. And there may be an extra fee.

Long story short: We are weeks away from delivering our baby, conceived, in the first round, thru fresh donor egg ivf at SG. The experience was very positive!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ORM or RBA. Much better success rates than SG. The travel isn't a big deal for donor egg; you only go once or twice for a day or two.

Yeah, that's if all goes right. Honestly, we started the DE process in May. We are ONLY NOW a week or so away from a transfer, and believe you me, there was no lollygagging on our part.

[Anonymous]

We have beautiful boy girl twins from donor eggs at CFA.

[Anonymous]

We used ORM. We first contacted them in May and by August of that same year we were pregnant. My husband spent 2 days in Oregon and I spent 3 days there. We were never there at the same time. Dominion provided both pre and post transfer monitoring. It was very, very easy and ORM has great success rates. ORM was also instrumental in arranging for a semi-open donation (which we wanted - my son can contact the donor when he is 18 or older, if he wishes).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did Shared Risk at SG and selected from their database of fresh donors and split the eggs with one other couple. If you go the fresh egg route, my recommendation would be to explore their database early and often to get a feel for what kind of donors they have and which donors are in high demand and get selected quickly because, in the end, you may need to make a quick decision to lock in your first choice. We looked at the database for about 6 months and when we were ready to pick, another couple selected her first, so we had to quickly lock in as the #2 position on the share.

SG also has a relationship with Donor Egg Bank USA, which is a frozen egg bank. The selection was slightly larger because donors were from all over the US. Occasionally, though not often, I saw fresh egg donors show up in the frozen egg database. You know in advance how many eggs you will be getting, whereas, with fresh, the number of eggs is uncertain, and you will split them with the couple who is sharing the donor, if you are doing a share. That said, my recollection is that the number of frozen eggs you receive is comparable to the number you get in a shared situation. Also with frozen there is no guarantee that they will survive the unthawing process. And there may be an extra fee.

Long story short: We are weeks away from delivering our baby, conceived, in the first round, thru fresh donor egg ivf at SG. The experience was very positive!

We did frozen at SG and this pp's info is not correct. There is a guarantee that you will get one embryo to make it to transfer or your money back. As with the fresh donors, frozen lots go quickly too. I watched the stock for a while before we made a decision because once you're ready you need to be quick deciding. The frozen process is a cakewalk compared to real IVF.

[Anonymous]

RBA

[Anonymous]

We used RBA ( Atlanta) frozen, you get 6. Had 3 IVF cycles all negative.

[Anonymous]

I was very happy with SG shared risk. Have 3 DE kids (all from same donor, although she was our 3rd donor overall so it took a while).

[Anonymous]

What is ORM? What is it about these clinics that seems to matter most for higher DE success rates?