There are many reasons why women need donated eggs.

• Some women needing donor eggs have been trying to get pregnant on their own for several years with multiple miscarriages and shattered hopes, leading to physical and emotional trauma.

• Some other women have a genetic condition, which requires them to use donor eggs to prevent the genetic condition from passing to their biological offspring.

• Others have had cancer earlier in their lives and the procedures to cure them have left them infertile.

• Many women receiving donor eggs are women whose own eggs are not capable of producing a successful pregnancy. The majority of these women are over the ideal age to use their own eggs to become pregnant. We have also helped many 30-year-old women with premature menopause.