Share Your Egg Donation Story

We are the world's first self-advocacy group for egg donors.

Egg donation changed our lives. Now we're traveling around the world with a camera, a recorder, and a notebook.

We Are Egg Donors is a storytelling project that combines photography, writing, and oral narratives to illustrate individual experiences of egg donors around the world. 

Led by real egg donors, this self-advocacy project aims to: (1) Empower donor voices around the world, (2) Provide a neutral space for complex conversations, (3) Shift the narrative that egg donors are passive participants in the fertility industry, (4) Passionately advocate for the safest possible use of reproductive technology.

You are invited to be a part of it. Share your story: WeAreEggDonors@gmail.com.

By interviewing and connecting with other donors around the world, we are turning on a light. Discovering stories. 

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The Insider's Guide to Egg Donation

This will be the next book I purchase on my Kindle.

Here's the review that captured my attention!

QUESTION: I am interested in donating my eggs but I haven’t had all of the time to do effective research. advice and good places to get information?

ANSWER

I suggest this site - I found it very helpful. If you scroll down it has links to various questions. 

Keeping with my obsession with documenting my life, I blogged during my entire experience of being a two-time egg donor.  http://www.eggdonortellsall.com/

When I first became interested in the idea, I started searching for reproductive clinics in my area (at the time Overland Park, KS). When I found the only clinic close by, I filled out the "I'm Interested" online form. Once I was actually contacted, I did crazy research on the risks associated with egg donation. Unfortunately, there isn't much medical knowledge about the potential risks, besides those experienced by egg donors immediately after the surgery. 

The process to becoming an egg donor isn't like with sperm donation. It was a 50+ page application.  For example, it went as far as to ask how tall each member of my family was when they died. Not to mention the screening process and then you actually have to be chosen by a family. Can you imagine being a couple and flipping through 'profiles' (like an online dating site!) to find a donor?!

- Sierra

QUESTION: Regarding egg donation, were you scared when you read the risks? You've got me thinking about it and reading some of the risks, especially during the surgery related ones, sound terrifying.

ANSWER

Yes, I was scared.

What really made me comfortable were the people/doctors/nurses whose care I would be under at the clinic. The first time I visited for the screening, I was skeptical. But I could tell how much passion and expertise they had and I felt safe. I learned later on that the doctor was one of the best in the field.

My advice: if you do ever want to look into donation further, make sure you feel comfortable with the doctors and at the clinic. It is more of a gut feeling. And it's important.

Also: make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. If one is only invested for the money... the pain and discomfort will not be worth it. The ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) I experienced was worth it, to me, once I found out the couple was pregnant. Prior to finding that out, it was tough for me to reflect positively on the experience.


- Sierra

Ask An Egg Donor Anything

What do you want to know about egg donation?

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