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Build Your Family with Ember Fertility’s Donor Egg Bank

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Build Your Family with Ember Fertility’s Donor Egg Bank

Key points of Ember Fertility’s Egg Bank

  • A diverse pool of screened egg donor candidates in our frozen donor egg database.
  • FDA-compliant infectious disease & genetic testing.
  • Rapid, efficient “ready-to-use” frozen egg donor bank program.
  • Streamlined path to parenthood using a donor egg with comprehensive intended parent support.

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Ready-to-use frozen donor eggs are available now from our egg bank, with pricing starting at just $3,199

Transparent donor egg bank pricing for your peace of mind

At Ember, we believe in market transparency and accessible care. Our donor egg pricing is designed to be fair and straightforward to help you plan your future with confidence.

Take the first step toward making your dream of becoming a parent a reality through egg donation. Whether you are a single parent by choice, part of a same-sex couple or facing specific fertility challenges, the team at Ember Fertility Center (EFC) is here to support you on your unique journey to parenthood.

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Discover your options with Ember Fertility’s Egg Bank

EFC’s Egg Bank offers a diverse selection of donor eggs from carefully screened egg donors of various ethnic backgrounds. To ensure the highest standards of care and peace of mind, all donor eggs come with comprehensive documentation about the donor:

  • FDA-required infectious disease screening: Rigorous health checks to ensure the highest safety standards.
  • Psychological evaluation: Thorough assessments to support the emotional well-being of all parties involved.
  • Genetic carrier screening reports: Detailed insights to help you make informed decisions for your future family.
  • Detailed egg donor profiles: Comprehensive information to help you find the right match.

What happens next? A step-by-step guide to using Ember Fertility’s Egg Bank

Once you have selected your donor eggs, you may wonder about what’s next. Here is a guide to the typical process.

Step 1: Complete the male partner’s fertility evaluation

The intended parent or male partner must complete a consultation with our physician and the fertility pre-screening process, which typically includes:

  • Semen analysis.
  • Infectious disease testing (must meet FDA requirements if using a gestational carrier).
  • Genetic carrier screening to compare results with the egg donor and minimize shared recessive risks.

Step 2: Determine how many donor eggs to purchase

There is no single number that is right for every intended parent. As a general starting point, 6-8 mature donor eggs is often considered a reasonable minimum, but the ideal number depends on your individual circumstances, family-building goals and tolerance for financial risk.

Here are several important factors to consider:

In general, purchasing more eggs gives you more opportunities to create viable embryos and may increase the likelihood of achieving success from a single cohort (the group of eggs purchased at one time). However, purchasing more eggs also means a higher upfront cost.

On the other hand, purchasing too few eggs carries its own financial risk. If the first cohort does not result in a viable embryo or successful pregnancy, you may need to start the process again with another group of donor eggs. This can mean not only purchasing additional eggs, but also paying certain laboratory, fertilization, embryo culture, preimplantation genetic testing, and related treatment fees again.

For some families, purchasing a larger cohort upfront may therefore be more cost-effective than going through multiple smaller cycles.

Your long-term family-building goals are an important part of deciding how many eggs to purchase.

If your goal is one child, a smaller cohort may be reasonable depending on the quality of the eggs, sperm factors and other clinical considerations. If you hope to have two or more children, you should generally consider purchasing more eggs so that you have a better chance of creating enough embryos for future pregnancies.

For families hoping for more than two children, it may be financially worthwhile to consider matching directly with an egg donor and completing a fresh donor egg retrieval cycle, rather than purchasing a limited number of frozen eggs. A fresh cycle may provide access to the full number of eggs retrieved from that donor and potentially create more embryos for future family building.

If you have a preference regarding the gender of your future child and plan to use PGT-A to identify embryo gender, you may want to consider purchasing a larger number of eggs.

Not every mature egg will fertilize, not every fertilized egg will develop into a blastocyst, and not every blastocyst will be chromosomally normal. Among euploid embryos (those with the normal number of chromosomes), there is also no guarantee that you will have an embryo of your preferred gender.

Therefore, the more specific your family-building goals are, the more important it becomes to have an adequate number of eggs and potential embryos available.

The sperm source is another important part of determining how many donor eggs may be appropriate.

Factors to consider may include sperm concentration, motility and morphology; paternal age; the need for sperm to be surgically retrieved sperm, such as with TESE or TESA, following a vasectomy or other condition; and known genetic or chromosomal conditions that may require additional embryo testing, such as PGT-M or PGT-SR.

When significant male-factor infertility or genetic considerations are present, purchasing additional donor eggs may provide more opportunities to create embryos suitable for transfer.

The person carrying the pregnancy – whether an intended mother or a gestational carrier – is another part of the overall picture.

For example, a young, medically well-screened gestational carrier with a healthy uterus and a recent history of uncomplicated full-term pregnancy may have a favorable prognosis for embryo transfer. In that situation, some intended parents may feel comfortable starting with a smaller number of donor eggs.

If there are factors that may reduce the expected likelihood of implantation or successful pregnancy, having additional embryos available – and therefore potentially starting with more donor eggs – may become more important.

While 6-8 mature donor eggs can be a reasonable starting point, the right number should not be determined by a general rule alone.

Consider your desired number of children, whether embryo sex matters to you, sperm quality and genetic factors, who will carry the pregnancy, your budget, and how comfortable you are with the possibility of having to purchase another cohort and repeat laboratory procedures.

The goal is not simply to purchase as many eggs as possible. It is to choose a number that gives you a reasonable chance of achieving your complete family-building goals while balancing cost and risk.

Step 2: Donor egg fertilization and embryo creation

Once screening is complete, the male partner or sperm donor will provide a fresh or frozen semen sample. The selected donor eggs are thawed, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is performed. The resulting embryos are cultured in our laboratory.

Rapid timeline from donor egg bank to embryos: Once you select your donor eggs, it can take as little as one week from sperm collection to blastocyst-stage fertilized embryos.

Step 3: Decide on preimplantation genetic testing (PGT)

If you wish to know the sex of the embryos or select a specific gender for family balancing, we biopsy the blastocysts (matured embryos) for PGT. If you have no preference, PGT may not be necessary as egg donors typically have a lower risk of chromosomal abnormalities. Our fertility expert Dr. William Freije can help determine whether PGT is appropriate for your specific situation.

According to American Society for Reproductive Medicine guidance, younger egg donors generally have a lower risk of age-related chromosomal abnormalities. All donors in our egg bank are under the age of 35 at the time of egg retrieval, and more than 95% are under 30. Therefore, embryos created from these donor eggs may not necessarily require PGT-A solely for the purpose of screening for chromosomal abnormalities.

Step 4: Determine who will carry the donor-egg pregnancy

The final step is deciding who will carry the pregnancy:

  • Partner/intended parent: Carrying the pregnancy through a frozen embryo transfer (FET).
  • Gestational carrier (surrogate): Working with a gestational carrier/surrogate to bring your child into the world.

Fast facts on Ember Fertility’s donor egg bank

Donor eggs are an excellent option for single parents by choice, same-sex couples, and individuals or couples facing fertility challenges related to egg quality, such as diminished ovarian reserve or genetic conditions.

Absolutely. We welcome single women who are building their families through donor eggs.

Some of our single female patients, particularly those who are pursuing motherhood later in life, choose to purchase donor eggs from our egg bank and donor sperm from a sperm bank. The donor eggs and donor sperm are then used to create embryos through IVF (in vitro fertilization), and the patient can carry the pregnancy herself if medically appropriate.

In this situation, although the child does not have a genetic connection to the intended mother, she is still the child’s legal parent.

Using both donor eggs and donor sperm can be a wonderful family-building option for single women who wish to experience pregnancy and become mothers.

All donors undergo rigorous FDA-required infectious disease screening, thorough psychological evaluations, and comprehensive genetic carrier screening to ensure the highest standards of safety and care.

Frozen donor eggs are available to use immediately, providing a streamlined and efficient path to family-building. Fresh donor cycles require coordinating a donor’s cycle with the intended parent’s or gestational carrier’s cycle, which may involve longer timelines.

Yes. You will have access to detailed egg donor profiles, allowing you to select an egg donor based on the information provided, such as medical history, ethnic background and other personal characteristics.

Sample frozen donor egg bank profiles

Curious what details are available in our donor egg database? Profile stats include the egg donor’s childhood photo, physical characteristics like ethnicity, height and eye color, and other quality details like education.

Ember Fertility Center's egg bank sample profile for an Asian donor | Orange County, CA
Example profile
Ember Fertility Center's egg bank sample profile for an African American donor | Orange County, CA
Sample profile
Ember Fertility Center's egg bank sample profile for a caucasian donor | Orange County, CA
Not actual donor profiles for privacy
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