More than 75 percent of women at East Coast Fertility, many of whom are over age 45 and who turn to IVF as a treatment option with donor eggs, conceive as a result of the procedure. 

Nationally, each year, egg donation accounts for about 5,800 babies born in the United States. In 1987, Dr. David Kreiner, Founder and Director of East Coast Fertility, directed the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine Donor Egg program, the first successful donor egg program in the nation.  His research, Spontaneous and Pharmacologically Induced Remissions in Patients with Premature Ovarian Failure was published in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1988.  In 1988, he achieved the first donor egg pregnancy conceived by IVF on Long Island. 

In 2009, East Coast Fertility’s Donor Egg program provides patients, who can no longer produce healthy eggs, embryos that can help you carry and deliver a baby.   Once you pick a donor, both you and she will take Lupron or Ganirelix and/ or birth control pills to get your reproductive cycles in sync — she needs to ovulate when your uterine lining can support an embryo. She'll also take fertility drugs to help her develop several mature eggs for fertilization, while you will receive estrogen and progesterone to prepare your uterus for pregnancy.

Once her eggs are mature, she will be given an anesthetic and have her eggs removed from her ovaries by inserting a needle through her vaginal wall using an ultrasound for guidance.  

After the retrieval, the procedure is identical to that of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Your partner's sperm or a donor's sperm will be combined with your donor's eggs in a dish in a laboratory. Three or five days later, after the fertilized eggs have divided, they will form a cluster of cells called an embryo. Your doctor will insert the embyo(s) into your uterus through your cervix using a thin catheter also under ultrasound guidance.

Many experts recommend transfer of a single embryo to avoid the risk of twins or triplets. Extra embryos, if there are any, may be frozen in case this cycle doesn't succeed. If the treatment does succeed, an embryo will implant in your uterine wall and continue to grow into a baby. Using donor eggs, you will have greater than 55% live birth rate per donation and about 75% pregnancy rate.

Healthy females between 21-31 years of age are recruited by East Coast Fertility to anonymously donate their eggs.

Extensive screening is performed on donors:

• Fertility – Hormonal & Ultrasound
• Medical History - Donor & Family
• Psychological Assessment
• Drug Testing
• Infectious Disease Testing

Single or shared egg donor-recipient(s) cycles are available to meet individual needs.

Recipients Review Potential Egg Donors’ Questionnaires  Prior to Selection. In addition:

• Physical Characteristics
• Ethnic & Religious Background
• Education
• Occupation
• Family History

Egg donors waive any legal rights and responsibilities for any offspring created from the use of their eggs.

Donor sperm from registered sperm banks are available for inseminations.  

Oocyte Donation Handbook