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 help of IVF and has spent over 25 years since then working to help families through donor conception. We feel very privileged to do the work we do. There is nothing more incredible than a literal village of people, your donor, your surrogate, your fertility doctor, nurses, lawyers, your egg donation agency, counsellor, and more, coming together to make your family a reality.
Who We Work With
Approximately half of the clients at Fertility Match are men looking to have a family with the help of an egg donor and surrogate, either because they are in a same-sex relationship or they are a single person seeking to become a parent.
Regardless of their parent’s gender or marital status, some children will simply have a natural desire to meet their egg donor while others may not. We simply won’t know until they tell us. So, designing a program where the door is open for them to walk through if desired was our fundamental priority. The only way we figured we could do that was to only accept donors who would be willing to fulfill this request if desired by a child. So that is what we did from the start. The donors you see in our egg donation database are all open to meeting a child one day, and the majority of them are open to having a known relationship as defined by a legal contract with the recipient and the child if desired.
Our Egg Donation Program
Egg donation Canada is something Fertility Match approaches exclusively through fresh donation cycles, working with trusted professional partners across the country. Since our inception in 2017, we have focused on developing a program with the best interests of the children and families we are helping to create always at the forefront of everything we do.
One of the things we are most proud of is that we have never facilitated an anonymous egg donation. All egg donors who join our program are at minimum required to be willing to meet a child or children born from their donation after they turn 18 years of age. We also facilitate known donation, meaning intended parent and donors can meet anytime after the donation has occurred if both parties wish to do so. You can learn more about how this works by visiting our intended parents FAQ.
Why Open-ID Donation Matters for Same-Sex and Single Parents
The same-sex male couples and single men in our program report feeling a deep sense of reassurance when selecting an egg donor who is open to meeting their child or children one day. They feel relieved knowing that their egg donor welcomed this from the start, that their child or children won’t be left trying to track down their background information through a social genetic testing company one day, which may not even get them the information or peace they want or need.
They feel safe knowing they can one day tell their children they worked with an agency that put their child’s right to know where they biologically came from and to access health information first. To understand what this journey looks like from beginning to end, visit our guide on the egg donation process canada or review the intended parent qualifications to see if you are ready to get started.
The Donors in Our Program
The female egg donor candidates in our program are educated, healthy, committed, and altruistically motivated young women who want to donate to people who will make great parents. The donors we accept into our program come to us interested in donating eggs for different reasons. Some saw the pain a loved one experienced from infertility while growing up. Others don’t plan on using their eggs anytime soon or at all. Many simply realize that a sacrifice from them could change someone else’s entire universe.
Regardless of their reasoning, it all comes down to the same thing in the end: they want to do something good for someone in need. If you are curious about who qualifies, you can review our egg donor requirements and egg donor responsibilities in detail. Outside of our Canada-wide clinical criteria, genuinely wanting to help others is the spirit of what we look for in every one of our donors.
For families who want to read about real journeys before taking the next step, we encourage you to explore egg donor success stories as well as stories from intended parents who have been through our program.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you are an international intended parents client or based anywhere across Canada, we would love to hear from you. Our fertility consulting team is here to guide you through every step of the process. You can contact Fertility Match directly or submit an intended parents application to get the conversation started. We would love to meet you and hear whether you think we could be part of the village that will make your family a reality.
