Video: Who Might Use an Egg Donor?

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Ask the Experts

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Who might use an egg donor?

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Dr. John Payne, Piedmont Reproductive Endocrinology Group (PREG): Donor egg is a very exciting option

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for women who have either diminished ovarian reserve, have gone through premature ovarian failure,

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or maybe have done some IVF cycles on their own using their own eggs and were not able to conceive.

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It's where they have a younger woman who's usually an anonymous donor but could be a known donor

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such as a sister or a friend who donates their eggs to be mixed with their partner's sperm or donor sperm to create embryos

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which are then transferred into the recipient's uterus, which is the woman who was not able to use her own eggs for many different reasons.

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And then she can carry the pregnancy in her own uterus and be the birth mother.

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