Egg Donor Qualifications & Pay
Women who choose to donate their eggs are self-confident, bright women. While you may think women donate their eggs for money, many are motivated by the desire to make a lasting impact on others hoping to grow a family.
What Are the Qualifications To Be an Egg Donor?
Between the ages of 21-29 years old
Body mass index (BMI) is below 27.5
At least 5 feet tall
Have both ovaries
Free of genetic disorder diagnosis
General clean bill of health
Do not use tobacco
No history of substance abuse
Able to obtain up-to-date family history and health status
No history of multigenerational familial diagnoses such as inheritable cancer, various genetic disorders, etc.
Some education beyond high school or success in a chosen career path
Willingness to complete medical and psychological screening
Willingness to use injectable medications
Willingness to travel as requested, including a screening trip, local appointments, and up to 12 days for egg retrieval and follow-up care
Can You Donate Eggs If You're on Birth Control?
Yes, in most cases. Being on birth control doesn't automatically disqualify you from becoming an egg donor, reduce your egg supply, or affect the quality of your eggs.
If you're on the pill, the patch, or other hormonal birth control, you may need to discontinue it before the egg donation process.
Some IUDs may remain in place; hormonal IUDs must be removed.
Tubal ligation (tubes tied) does not interfere with egg donation; only your fallopian tubes are affected.
The length of time between stopping your birth control and starting the egg donation process varies with the method of birth control you're using.
What Do You Do With All My Information?
You may have noticed that we’re looking for quite a bit of personal information, especially when it comes to your health and blood-related family medical history. Each of our donors will work with three different professionals during the medical screening process: physicians, psychologists, and genetic counselors. This team of professionals will add to the information collected from you in order to obtain the most accurate family medical history and donor profile as possible. Because you are donating eggs – and therefore your DNA – ensuring you have a safe and clean background is important.
After all, the donor-conceived child inherits your medical genealogy. When the child grows up, it’s not only their right to have access to their family medical history, but this information will become crucial for them to manage their own health.
What Disqualifies You From Donating Eggs?
As you may have guessed, many of the egg donation disqualifications fall outside the limits of our discretion. For example, you will be disqualified from consideration if:
You are above the egg donor age limit of 29
Your BMI doesn’t meet the criteria
You are a smoker
You have a history of drug use
You are unwilling to be open about your family history
Egg Donor Qualifications & Pay Commonly Asked Questions
The recommended number of times a woman can donate her eggs is 6 times.
Some donors, once they have successfully helped someone grow a family, wish to make another donation. It is an incredibly fulfilling feeling, and we understand why such caring and remarkable women want to come back more than once. That being said, you might wonder, what are the limitations of donating eggs?
The American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the leading nonprofit multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of reproductive medicine, has concluded there is a finite number of times a donor can undergo a donation cycle.
ASRM has advised limiting the number of a donor’s stimulated cycles to 6 times. Furthermore, they recommend limiting the successful number of donations from a single donor to no more than 25 families per population of 800,000. This recommendation is made in an effort to limit concerns regarding too many blood-related children from different families in one geographic location. The best way to do this will be more reliant on the number of donation cycles than anything else.
Yes, you can still donate your eggs if you have had your tubes tied! Tubal ligation only affects your fallopian tubes, not your ovaries and egg production.
According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), egg donors should be at least 21 and not older than 34 years old. (Everie egg donors must be between the ages of 21 and 29.)
Women need the medical history of both biological parents and at least one grandparent to qualify as egg donors.
Yes, you can still donate eggs if you’ve had a hysterectomy. We would, however, carefully investigate the reason for the hysterectomy at such a young age to determine if you would qualify to be an egg donor.