If you are donating embryos anonymously, the people who are considering receiving the embryos will be given your profiles or the profiles of the person who provide the eggs or sperm from which the embryo were created. This includes non-identifying details such as physical characteristics hair and eye colour, height, weight, build, complexion, race , blood group, career and education.
As there are not many embryo donors, we often have a waiting list of patients hoping for an embryo donor, so you are likely to be matched quite quickly after volunteering to donate.
It is illegal in Australia to receive payment for donation but the person who receives the embryos will refund any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses related to the donation. Embryo donors must attend a minimum of two confidential counselling sessions with a Life Fertility Clinic counsellor. This gives you the opportunity to talk through what it means for you and your families and to make sure you fully understand your rights and the situations that could arise in the future as a result of your donation.
It also gives us a chance to get to know you and assess whether you would be a suitable donor. Most people find it very helpful to explore their feelings about donating and to consider how it may affect their life now and in the future. If the recipients of your embryos are known to you, you will also be required to have a joint counselling session with them. Once a donation agreement is in place, the recipients become responsible for the embryos in storage.
This point is reached when: all preliminary requirements including counselling have been completed by everybody involved; you, the donor s have completed your consent to donation; and the recipient s have completed their consent to receive donated embryos. Although it might seem a long way in the future, you will be asked in your consent to embryo donation to consider whether you are happy for the recipients to donate the embryos to someone else in the future should some remain in storage when they have completed their treatment.
This is because donation of these embryos could result in further families being created. You will also be asked whether you are happy for them to discard the embryos. There is no obligation to consent to either of these. The recipient will be provided with all of this information prior to donation and can choose not to accept the donation as needs be.
Embryo donors can still change or withdraw consent to the donation at any time up to the time of embryo transfer for the recipient. However, once this point in treatment has been reached, all rights and responsibilities with regard to any pregnancies, or any legal responsibilities for any child born, lie with the recipient s. All embryo donors or the person who provide the eggs or sperm must consent to their identifying information being held with Life Fertility Clinic. When a child conceived using your embryos reaches 18 years old, they are entitled to ask Life Fertility Clinic for your identifying details and may try to trace you for medical or other reasons.
The information we will release will be that which we were given at the time of donation and may include name, date of birth, address and medical history.
If we are contacted we will endeavour to let you know that we have received this request and will be releasing information about you. If you have donated anonymously, you may also ask us for non-identifying details about who has received your embryos and the number and gender of any children born.
The chance of pregnancy depends on a number of factors, including the stage at which the embryos were frozen, the methods used for cryopreservation and, most importantly, the age of the woman whose eggs were used to create the embryos at the time the embryos were frozen. If an embryo vitrified at the blastocyst stage is thawed and transferred, it has approximately the same success rate as a fresh embryo.
There is no evidence that frozen and thawed embryos result in a greater number of miscarriages or abnormalities. Yes, if you have multiple embryos in storage Life Fertility Clinic may consider with your consent offering your embryos for donation to more than one recipient, but there is a limit on the number of families that can be created including your own. For instance;. We have counsellors available to help you work through your options with embryo donation.
Home Becoming a donor Become an embryo donor. What is embryo donation? Key ethical issues Most of the work associated with embryo donation involves preparation of donors and recipients for the key ethical issues associated with this treatment. They are: Minimising any potential harm to children involved. Children having information about their genetic origins and their siblings Ensuring everyone is fully informed about the psychological, social and ethical issues before they go ahead, so there are no regrets or surprises later.
Find out more about donating your embryos. You can donate them to a woman or couple who need them and who otherwise might not be able to have a much longed-for family. Your other options are to donate your embryos to research into infertility and genetic diseases or for use in training. There are strict rules around using embryos for research. Find out more about donating to research.
It depends on what the egg or sperm donor originally consented to and whether their donation has already been given to the maximum of 10 families for treatment purposes. You should speak to your clinic about whether this might be an option. In exceptional circumstances a clinic may accept donors outside this age bracket.
These are to reduce the risk of passing on medical conditions to any resulting child. Find out more about donating your eggs. Find out more about donating your sperm. Find out more about giving consent. Download our leaflet Giving consent: a guide for donors. Find out more about the rules around releasing donor information.
In most cases, providing you donate through a licensed UK fertility clinic you'll have no legal rights or responsibilities to children conceived from your donation.
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