Egg Donation – Learn About Houston Fertility Institute's Egg Donor Program

Welcome to the Houston Fertility Institute egg donor program. Our facility matches potential egg donation candidates in the Houston, Texas area to recipient couples who are otherwise infertile due to certain medical conditions. This website contains information that will help you understand the egg donation program and the steps required at each stage of the process. We thank you for your interest and look forward to working with you.

• Who Can be an Egg Donor?
• Who Needs Egg Donor IVF?
• Overview of Egg Donation at Our Texas Offices
• Financial Obligations
• What Can You Expect as an Egg Donor?
• The Egg Donation Process
• Egg Donation Checklist

Who Can be an Egg Donor?

An egg donor is a compassionate woman who offers another woman the chance to become a mother. Any woman in good health, between the ages of 21 and 32, may volunteer at one of our Texas offices to be an anonymous egg donor.

Who Needs Egg Donor IVF?

Egg donor in vitro fertilization (IVF) was originally designed for women who no longer had any eggs of their own as the result of autoimmune disease, chemotherapy, radiation therapy or surgical removal of the ovaries. Egg donor IVF is also offered to women who carry significant genetic diseases that they do not want to pass on to their children, and women whose chance of conception with standard therapy is very low, or zero.

Overview of Egg Donation at our Texas Offices

As part of the egg donation program at Houston Fertility Institute, each egg donor candidate must first undergo straightforward medical and psychological screening. When these steps have been successfully completed, the egg donor takes injections of fertility medications for roughly 8-12 days to help more eggs mature than would normally in a menstrual cycle. Egg donors are monitored throughout stimulation via hormone blood tests and ultrasounds to determine how well the medication is working. These tests typically require a minimum of four morning office visits. Once it is determined that the eggs are mature, they are collected during a minor 20-minute procedure. Egg donors can return to work or school the following day knowing they have given a couple the joy of having a child!

Financial Obligations?

Egg donors are not expected to pay for the medical and psychological screening tests, medications, or procedures leading up to, or during, the egg donation cycle at our offices in Texas. Each egg donor will receive financial compensation for the time and effort they put into donating their eggs.

What Can You Expect as an Egg Donor?

• We will make the experience as easy and comfortable as possible.
• You will receive individual attention from our egg donation team at one of our six Texas offices, conveniently located in Houston, The Woodlands, Willowbrook, Tomball, Katy, Sugar Land, and Medical Center.
• Your identity will never be revealed to the recipient couple nor will you know who they are.
• Participating at one of our Houston, Texas area offices as an egg donor has no long-term health risks and there are no adverse effects on your future fertility.

The Egg Donation Process

The following steps outline the egg donation process at our Texas offices:

1. The Application Process

Please contact our Willowbrook office at 832-237-1434 to speak to one of our RN's. The RN will give you some information about our Egg Donor Process and direct you to https://www.donoreligibility.com/DonorEligibility/ where you will complete the application. The application asks questions that help describe who you are as a person as well as your medical, social, and family history. Once completed you should mail 4-6 photos of yourself to our Tomball office.

2. The Personal Interview/Injection Lesson

After the questionnaire and photos have been reviewed, and preliminary qualifications are met, each prospective egg donation candidate will meet at one of our Houston, Texas area offices with our egg donor coordinator for an interview. She will explain the steps of the egg donation program in greater depth.

3. Matching Egg Donors and Recipients

Once you have been notified of qualification, your questionnaire and photos are placed in our donor book for recipients to review while selecting their egg donor.

4. Psychological Interview

Once selected by a recipient, we require all egg donors to see a psychologist. This is part of our strategy to ensure your long-term psychological health. The interview will focus on the many complex moral, ethical, and psychosocial issues that confront egg donors. Our psychologist will help you explore many issues so you will feel confident in your choice to participate in the egg donation program at Houston Fertility Institute.

5. The Medical Examination and Blood Tests

The final step in the egg donation process includes a medical examination and blood tests. During this examination you will meet with a Houston Fertility Institute physician for a physical exam and a cervical culture (which tests for potential STDs). You will also have blood drawn to test for HIV and Hepatitis. If indicated, the potential egg donor spouse will also be tested for HIV and Hepatitis.

6. The Egg Donation Cycle

Once the egg donor has completed all screenings and been successfully matched with a recipient, the medical staff at one of our Texas offices will initiate the egg donation cycle.

Egg Donation Checklist

• Complete the online application
• Submit at least 4-6 photos, two of which must be recent.
• Send good quality photos that best display your features (you may crop or enlarge as needed). Pictures should not include other people unless they are your children.
• Photos can be returned to you if needed.
• Mail photos of yourself to Houston Fertility Institute, 13215 Dotson, Suite 100, Houston, TX 77070. Include a copy of your driver's license for our records.
• Our egg donor coordinator will contact you once the questionnaire and photos have been received to schedule the interview.
• Interview and injection lesson.
• Your photos and completed egg donation questionnaire will be placed in our donor book. We will contact you once a recipient at our offices in Willowbrook, Tomball, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, or Houston, Texas has chosen you for her egg donor.

Houston Fertility Institute Contact Information

If you have any questions or need further clarification please contact our egg donor coordinator. You are a very special person for wanting to help couples achieve their dream of having a family. We want to thank you for your decision and let you know that we are here to support you through the process as well.

Houston Fertiltiy Institute
13215 Dotson, Suite 100
Houston, TX 77070
Ph: 832-237-1434
Fax: 832-237-1436

Thank you again for your interest in our egg donation program and your generosity in helping others! We have offices in Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Tomball, Katy, Houston, and Medical Center, Texas to help make your egg donor treatment as convenient as possible. Please contact Houston Fertility Institute today to learn more about the program.

“It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live”
-Ethel Percy Andrus

Dear donor,
Words cannot express the appreciation we have for you. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to become parents. When we found out about the donor program at Houston Fertility Institute, we knew we had to try it. We are just so thankful that there are women like you in this world who would give such a precious GIFT to complete strangers. Thank you! We will always hold a special place for you in our hearts!
Recipient and Husband

To my donor,
I just wanted to say thank you for going through the egg donation procedure. I commend you for wanting to do this. This will probably be the greatest gift you will ever give anyone - the Gift of Life. And I realize only a very caring and unselfish person would be willing to do this. Thank you for making my dreams of motherhood come true!
Recipient

Tomball Medical Complex
13414 Medical Complex Dr.
Suite #7
Tomball, Texas 77375
Office: 281-357-1881
Fax: 281-357-1865

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The Woodlands
9200 Pinecroft, Suite #480
The Woodlands, Texas 77380
Office: 281-681-0480
Fax: 281-681-9170

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Houston Office
2500 Fondren, Ste. 350
Houston, Texas 77063
Office: 713-490-2527
Fax: 713-334-5547

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Sugar Land Office
4911 Sand Hill Dr.
Sugar Land, Texas 77479
Office: 713-490-2527
Fax: 713-334-5547

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Katy Office
23920 Katy Freeway, Suite 340
Katy, TX 77494
Office: 281-693-2434
Fax: 281-693-2455

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Medical Center
6400 Fannin, Suite 2000
Houston, TX 77030
Office: 713-796-1434
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Willowbrook Office
13215 Dotson, Suite 100
Houston, TX 77070
Office: 832-237-1434
Fax: 832-237-1436

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