What to Expect
How Intend and AsiaWest Egg Donors support your journey.
We work closely with our egg donors to help individuals and families achieve their dream of parenthood. All of our donors are carefully screened before being added to our donor database. Our experienced team provides personalized care and support to egg donors and families throughout every step of the screening and donation process.
Intend Egg Donors
Are you interested in becoming a parent through egg donation? Schedule a free consultation to learn more about Intend Egg Donors, the process, costs, and timelines.
AsiaWest Egg Donors
Are you interested in becoming a parent through egg donation? Schedule a free consultation to learn more about AsiaWest Egg Donors, the process, costs, and timelines.
Steps to egg donation
Step 1: Meet with Intend or AsiaWest Egg Donors
Our Client Manager will take the time to get to know you, learn about your needs, and explain the process. Whether you want to come to our office or speak to us by phone or Skype, we are happy to answer all of your questions.
Step 2: Select an egg donor
We will provide you with access to our egg donor database where you will find detailed information about potential donors including photos, physical description, a family history overview, education and personal interests. AsiaWest and Intend Egg Donors works hard to match intended parents with their ideal egg donor who has the unique qualities and attributes you are looking for. We are happy to provide you with as much guidance and assistance as you would like when selecting your egg donor.
Step 3: Sign up with our agency
Once you have found the right egg donor and decide to move forward, you will sign a contract with Intend or AsiaWest Egg Donors and pay our agency fee.
Step 4: Additional screening for you and your egg donor
Your egg donor will undergo additional psychological and medical screening recommended by your clinic.
Step 5: Sign a contract with your egg donor account
We provide a draft egg donation contract. You and your egg donor will review the document with separate attorneys, reach an agreement, and sign the contract. At this time, you will also fund the escrow account for your egg donor. (Your egg donor receives her compensation after completing the egg retrieval.)
Step 6: Egg donor begins medication cycle
Once the contract is signed and the escrow account is funded, we will send a letter to the fertility clinic giving them clearance to begin the medication cycles with your egg donor. She will then undergo a cycle of medications for about ten days before the egg retrieval can occur.
Step 7: Egg retrieval
Egg retrieval is done approximately 10 days after your egg donor begins her cycle medication. The retrieval is an outpatient procedure performed at the fertility clinic. Upon completion of the cycle your donor will be payed her compensation from the escrow account.
Step 8: Work with your clinic to build your family
The rest is up to you and your clinic!
Frequently Asked Questions
Costs vary at the clinic level, but donor expenses through Intend and AsiaWest Egg Donors range from $32,000-$56,000+. Click here for our Fees and Expenses.
Anonymous Donation: All personal and contact information of each party remains fully undisclosed. After the donation, there is no contact between parties in the future.
Semi-Anonymous: Both parties register with a third party, the Donor Sibling Registry. It allows the parties a way to contact each other in the future without exchanging personal information. It also provides the child born from the donation a way to find potential half-siblings when they are older.
Open Donation: There is some exchange of personal information between parties. Levels vary dependent on each party, ranging from email address exchange to meeting each other in person.
The entire egg donation process from selecting your donor to retrieval generally takes about 12-16 weeks. The length of the timeline is typically defined by the medical and legal requirements that the clinics and agencies must adhere to. Medical screening results can take up to 2-4 weeks to receive; legal contracts range from days to weeks to be properly completed, depending on the people involved and how fast they are able to review and sign the paperwork. Scheduling and planning the cycle also takes time and is dependent upon where the donor is in their menstrual cycle, as well as other factors such as the doctor’s schedule or lab availability.
Intended parents will be walked through how to search through the database. The database is fairly intuitive to navigate. One can filter searches by ethnicity and can view donors’ photos, family history, education, and answers to questions regarding personality/interests.
We will reach out to the donor to check on her availability for the donation. Next steps are:
Signatures are made on the Trust Estimate and Retainer Agreement
Agency fee is paid
Initial trust payment is made to fund the trust
Records are sent to the clinic to begin the match
Outside screening is initiated
Psychological evaluation: The donor speaks with a psychiatrist to ensure that she is fully aware of the benefits and risks of egg donation and has appropriate motivations for becoming a donor.
Fertility screening: The donor undergoes a physical examination and blood tests to ensure proper ovarian function and reserve.
Medical screening: The donor is tested for blood type, infectious diseases, drug use, and general health.
Genetic screening: The donor is tested to see if she is a genetic carrier of many diseases. The donor’s family history is also evaluated. All medical screenings will be done at your chosen IVF center.
Legal contract: Once all required screenings are complete, attorneys will draft the legal contract for everyone to
In order to ensure the fastest possible timeline, it’s best to begin your donor search at the same time that you select your surrogacy agency, however for those who want to take things one step at a time, choosing the egg donor first and moving ahead with that cycle can be done even without having the surrogate confirmed (you can always freeze the embryos until you surrogate is ready). Once you are ready for your surrogate, Intend Egg Donors will ensure a smooth and seamless transition into this step due to our close relationship with Northwest Surrogacy Center.
Intend Egg Donors
Are you interested in becoming a parent through egg donation? Schedule a free consultation to learn more about Intend Egg Donors, the process, costs, and timelines.
AsiaWest Egg Donors
Are you interested in becoming a parent through egg donation? Schedule a free consultation to learn more about AsiaWest Egg Donors, the process, costs, and timelines.