Donor egg - fresh or frozen

Hi ladies, I’m new to the donor club ave very excited. I’m getting a bit confused with fresh and frozen. This will be my last baby so o thought I’d just get one out of the freezer and if that doesn’t work, I just choose another? But all of the fees are for fresh donation and if you only sign up for one egg the odds aren’t as good as if you go for two eggs… but sure the odds are the same if you go one by one pit of the freezer, even from different donors. I checked research papers and frozen is now pretty equal to fresh so I’m a bit confused. Can someone explain how it works please?

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Hi, I’ve just started my donor egg journey. From what I gather the success rates from fresh or frozen eggs are roughly the same nowadays so depends on your preference. We’ve used London Egg Bank for frozen eggs (they were thawed and fertilised today). We bought 6 eggs from our chosen donor but you can do 6 or 10 from one or two donors, you then fertilise them with partner or donor sperm and they will transfer one embryo. If you have more than one embryo then you can freeze the rest so use later if you’re not successful first time around. Once you’ve used up all the embryos you have to pick a new donor and start the process again (if that makes sense?) Fresh works similar but you have to sync up with the donor on their treatment and won’t know for sure how many eggs you’ll get until they do egg collection.

London Egg Bank do free webinars that are good to find out a bit more about the process so I’d recommend signing up to one, even if you end up going with a different clinic

Hi Rebecca! Congratulations! I’m so pleased you are in such a wonderful journey, and thank you for taking so much time to reply. Great idea about the webinar, I’ll check it out.
They guarantee a baby after 3-4 tries in most clinics if you do a combination deal, So I was thinking of going egg by egg as it’s our last baby. There might be a reason not to do that that I don’t know about yet though!

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