First off, congratulations on your decision to have a family! We are sure there have been a lot of ups and downs for you to arrive at this path to parenthood, and we are truly excited for you. Heather Brook, RN, our Director of Client Care, became a mother with the...
Egg donation in Canada is 100% legal. The prohibition under the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA) is specifically against the purchase of eggs from a donor, but egg donor reimbursement is not illegal and covers a wide range of eligible expenses well beyond...
It’s one of the first things Egg Donors hear when they start looking into egg donation – one of the main side effects of donation is OHSS. Watch out for OHSS. They’ll be at risk for OHSS. But what exactly is OHSS? OHSS is Ovarian Hyper-Stimulation Syndrome. It occurs...
A question we hear on almost every Intended Parents consult call we do is simply: “why would someone donate their eggs?”. It is well known that egg donation Canada is uncompensated, with only expenses related to the donation eligible for reimbursement to an Egg Donor....
Donating eggs to a family is an incredible gift. Because you are giving such an important gift to a family, there are strict qualifying factors to be an Egg Donor. While the criteria below are not exhaustive, they must be met to be eligible to be an Egg Donor. These...
We want to respectfully respond to the article written by Dr. Caitlin Dunne of Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM) out of Burnaby, British Columbia entitled “5 things you probably didn’t know about donor eggs” for Today’s Parent. I have some genuine...
