Take the Next Step Towards Parenthood With Donor Eggs

Below is an overview of how an egg donor cycle typically unfolds.​​​

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Finding the Right Egg Donor

You’ll begin by reviewing egg donor profiles in our private database. As questions arise, we’re available to offer additional information to help clarify whether an egg donor is the right fit for your family-building goals.

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Clinical Review & Medical Approval

Once you’ve identified your preferred egg donor, we submit her records to your fertility clinic for medical review. For first-time egg donors, this generally includes her egg donor profile and AMH results.

 

If you are not currently working with a clinic, we are happy to provide recommendations. ​

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Securing the Match

After your physician provides medical approval, you formally reserve the egg donor by signing our agency retainer agreement and submitting the agency fee. This step confirms the match and allows coordination to begin across medical, legal, and financial channels.

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Finding a Family Law Attorney

If you are not already working with a family law attorney, we provide recommendations for attorneys experienced in reproductive law. This attorney will draft and negotiate the egg donor contract after your clinic provides confirmation of medical clearance. 

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We recommend finding the attorney you'd like to retain at this stage in the process to prevent any delays when your clinic confirms that legal can begin.

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Establishing Escrow

We support you in opening an escrow account to securely hold the cycle-related funds outlined in your retainer agreement.

 

These typically include:

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• Egg Donor compensation
• Egg Donor insurance
• Legal fees for the egg donor’s attorney
• Required psychological and genetic counseling evaluations
• Travel and incidental expenses

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Escrow ensures that all parties are protected and that funds are distributed appropriately at each milestone.

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Genetic Testing

First time egg donors are required to complete a genetic testing panel that will be ordered by your clinic. They will require the egg donor complete the same genetic testing panel that the Intended Father, or sperm donor, completed. 

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If an experienced egg donor was not tested for a gene mutation the Intended Father or sperm donor is a carrier for, the egg donor will need to be tested for that gene mutation. And, if the sperm provider was not tested for a gene mutation the egg donor carries, they will need to be tested.​​

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​Psychological Evaluation

First time egg donors will be required by your clinic to complete a psychological evaluation. We organize this evaluation with a mental health specialist trained to administer this variety of evaluation. Following completion of the evaluation, we send the report to your clinic for review. The specialist is compensated through escrow funds. 

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If you match with an experienced egg donor who has already completed this evaluation, your clinic will likely not require it be repeated, unless it was done over a year ago. ​

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Genetic Counseling Evaluation

If your clinic requires your egg donor complete a genetic counseling evaluation, we organize this evaluation as well. We support the egg donor in scheduling an appointment with a genetic counselor who will review the donor's personal and family health history. They then provide a report that is sent to your clinic for review.  The genetic counselor is compensated through escrow funds. 

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If you match with an experienced egg donor who has already completed this evaluation, your clinic will likely not require it be repeated.

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Egg Donor Medical Evaluation

 Following confirmation that there is genetic compatibility between the egg donor and sperm provider, and the egg donor has completed any prelim evaluations your fertility clinic might require, we will coordinate with your fertility clinic and egg donor to schedule the medical evaluation.

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This egg donor evaluation will take place at your fertility clinic and typically includes an ultrasound, blood draw, STD and drug test via urine analysis, and in some cases, a physical. Often, the egg donor meets with your nurse coordinator and/or fertility doctor during this visit. 

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For an egg donor that does not live locally to your clinic, we will book airfare, accomodations, and ground transport for her, using the travel funds in the escrow account. In addition, egg donors receive a daily per diem for food. Receipts are submitted to escrow before any reimbursements are distributed. 

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If all results come back normal, the clinic issues medical clearance and we can move forward with the legal portion of the process. ​

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Egg Donor Contract

After we receive notice of medical clearance, we will alert your reproductive law attorney and request that they begin drafting the egg donor contract. Once completed, your attorney will review it with you, make any requested revisions, then send the contract to the attorney we retain for the egg donor. 

 

Once both parties approve and sign, your attorney issues a legal clearance letter to your fertility clinic.

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Donor Egg Cycle Planning

With legal clearance in place, your fertility clinic prepares the egg donor’s cycle calendar. Protocols vary by clinic, but this often involves the egg donor beginning fertility medications based around her next menstrual cycle, or following a brief course of birth control pills.

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At this time, your fertility clinic will reach out to you and the donor to arrange shipment of the fertility medications. Payment for these medications is not organized by the agency. In most cases, Intended Parents provide payment information directly to the pharmacy the fertility clinic selects. Clinics provide IPs with the necessary information for this step.​​

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Outside Monitoring Clinic

If your egg donor does not live local to your fertility clinic, we will locate a clinic near the donor where she can go for ultrasounds and bloodwork prior to traveling to your clinic for the retrieval. This is referred to as an outside monitoring clinic.

 

While this can vary cycle to cycle, most egg donors complete their first two to three monitoring appointments at the outside monitoring clinic. Then, around day five or six of the egg donor being on fertility medications, she will travel to the area where your fertility clinic is located and complete the remainder of her monitoring appointments, and then the egg retrieval. She will likely be there for around 7-9 days, but this varies.

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Note: Payment for outside monitoring appointments is not covered by funds in escrow. Intended Parents complete a credit card authorization form the agency then provides to the outside monitoring clinic to cover costs. The agency can also support Intended Parents in providing their credit card information directly to the outside monitoring clinic. 

 

 

 

Travel Arrangements

Once we receive the egg donor calendar, we work with your egg donor to book accomodations, flights for both herself and her companion, and ground transportation for her egg retrieval trip. The egg donor and her companion also receive a daily stipend for food. 

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These costs are covered through the travel funds you will deposit in escrow. 

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Retrieval & Completion

Egg donors are typically on fertility medications for approximately 10-12 days prior to egg retrieval. 

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Regarding compensation, the egg donor receives a portion of her egg donor fee on the first day she begins fertility medications (currently this amount is $500, but subject to change), and the remainder of her egg donor fee directly following the egg retrieval. 

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A Note on Our Role

Throughout this process, Premiere Family Coordination serves as the prime liaison between all parties, doing our best to help ensure timelines stay aligned, questions are addressed promptly, and each step unfolds with clarity.