Written By: Hillary Redwine Completing your sixth and final cycle as an egg donor can feel bittersweet. It’s closing the door on an important chapter in your life while knowing you’ve made an incredible difference in the lives of the families you helped create. That’s certainly the case for Marissa*, who completed her sixth cycle […]
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Egg Donors Share Their Advice
Written by: Hillary Redwine Being an egg donor and helping to create a happy family is truly one of the most remarkable things you can do for someone else. Our agency is here to guide you through the steps in the egg donation process and support you throughout your cycle. If you’ve ever considered egg […]
Legal Considerations for Egg Donors
Benefits of working with an agency versus a frozen egg bank Egg donors today have many options when it comes to choosing who they want to work with for their donation cycle(s). There are agencies, fertility clinics with in-house donor programs and frozen egg banks, which typically split eggs from a single donor into multiple […]
Psychological Evaluation for Egg Donors
All egg donors at Egg Donor & Surrogate Solutions (ED&SS) will undergo a psychological evaluation as part of the medical screening and testing phase once they have matched with intended parents. Leslee Murphy, a Houston-based licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of experience, is one of the mental health professionals ED&SS works […]
You can be the solution!
Did you know 1 in 8 couples who struggle with infertility. As an egg donor, you could be the solution to helping one of these couples create the family of their dreams! The infertility journey When intended parents come to us seeking help to create their family, they often have been trying to conceive for […]
Because of Egg Donation, we are debt free
Written by: Hillary Redwine, cross posted In November 2019, Jordyn Boucha and her husband, Beau, were able to have their dream wedding by using the compensation from her first two egg donation cycles. “I know every girl dreams of her wedding and has Pinterest boards filled with inspiration for her perfect day, and I was no different,” […]
Meet Ashley and Habib, can you be their solution?
Hi everyone! Our names are Ashley and Habib El Radi, and we’re a young couple in our 30’s who recently relocated to Austin from New York City, where we met and fell in love. Habib and I come from worlds as different as you could imagine, but we have more in common than we could ever have hoped for in a […]
Meet Peter & Erin, can you be their solution?
Peter and Erin have been trying to have a baby ever since they married in 2012. Unfortunately, they have had a very long, painful, and unsuccessful journey. They suffered three miscarriages before consulting an infertility specialist and attempted multiple unsuccessful IVF cycles with Erin’s eggs and donor eggs before finally turning to adoption in […]
6 Tips for Writing a Letter to Your Egg Donor
Written by: Hillary Redwine Once intended parents (IPs) have chosen a donor, and she begins the medical screening process, our coordinators at Egg Donor and Surrogate Solutions will ask the IPs to write a letter to their donor that will be shared with her before or at the retrieval. Receiving the letter is often a […]
Meet Deepal & Jason, can you be their solution?
Deepal and Jason are in their early 30s, and they have been together for eight years. They have talked about having children for many years, but Deepal is physically unable to carry a child due to a condition she was born with. That is why they are in need of a surrogate to help them […]
How to Talk to Your Children About Egg Donation
Dallas-based psychologist Wendy Bauer has been working with infertile couples and individuals for 35 years with a special interest in families created via donor conception. Specifically, she counsels intended parents, egg donors, sperm donors, and donor-conceived children, teens, and adults. In her work with intended parents, Wendy helps them navigate the often-complex emotions that come […]
Meet Nick & Sean, can you be their solution?
Nick and Sean have been together for 11 years, and they have always desired children. After 4 unsuccessful IVF transfers, their 5th transfer resulted in the birth of their son in February 2020. They are so in love with their baby boy, and they desperately want to give him a sibling. Nick and Sean have […]
Meet Amber & Travis, can you be their solution?
Amber and Travis first met when they were in 6th grade!! Both went on to marry different people, but as fate would have it, they ended up together after both divorcing. Amber’s Chocolate Lab escaped from the yard and went on a hunt to find his mom a new husband! Travis found Tex, reconnected with […]
Meet Katie & Sean, can you be their solution?
Katie and Sean are both 31 years old, and they have been married for 6 years. They have a beautiful 4-year-old little girl who is their miracle baby. Katie has been pregnant one time, and at 24 weeks she was diagnosed with HELLP syndrome. Two days after she was diagnosed, she went into labor and […]
Meet Lindsay & Jeremy, can you be their solution?
Lindsay and Jeremy met their junior year of college at the University of Oklahoma and kept in touch after graduating. They started dating and soon after that, Lindsay accepted a job in Santiago, Chile. Even though they lived in different countries for a year and a half, it allowed them to start exploring the world […]
Meet Amber & Dan, can you be their solution?
Meet Amber and Daniel! They live in Texas and have been married for 9 years. They have actively been trying to add to their family for the past three years without success. Amber lost her kidney a few months after they started trying to conceive. She was told by her kidney doctor that with only […]