IVF + EGG DONATION PROCESS STEP BY STEP

1. Contact us!

The first step is to write an e-mail, fill in the application form, call, or use a skype connection from our website. You can also book a skype appointment.

 

2. Communication and Preparation

A coordinator will react to your request and start communication. After all initial questions are solved and you are ready to come, the coordinator starts to prepare you for the first visit to Kiev, Ukraine. You will be aware of all required documentation, medical tests, and the date of the first visit. The day of the first visit is set in correspondence to your working schedule and convenience. 1-2 weeks.

 

3. 1st Visit

The first visit is signing of the contract, first and second payment, examination with fertility doctor of an infertility clinic (1-2days). Your first visit includes meeting at the airport, accommodation, transportation in the city, personal assistance in the IVF clinic during the appointment day, medical assistance with your IVF protocol or egg donation protocol till the IVF pregnancy positive result. Please note, that you have to arrive together with your partner for the first visit. 1-2 weeks or more.

 

4. Find egg donor/Ovarian Stimulation. IVF

• As soon as you sign a fertility contract and undergo all procedures like doctor’s examination and consultation, make all necessary medical tests, you can start selecting a suitable egg donor from our egg donor database. This database has egg donors photos and basic information, so you can actually see who will donate eggs for your egg donation program. Actually you can start before your first visit, but your ovum donor is available for booking only after first payment to the egg donation clinic. There are two options of choosing a candidate. This can be done by your reproductive specialist with the help of your program coordinator, according to your blood groups, wished phenotype and so on. You can choose your wished oocyte donor from the database together with your family.

 

• Ovarian stimulation. IVF

  In case you are stimulated for your own eggs, you will receive all necessary medication with you and start stimulation back home. You arrive to Ukraine approximately 10 days before the eggs retrieval procedure for ultrasound checks and for additional medication. Please note that you will stay about 10-14 days in case of your own ovarian stimulation.

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5. Synchronisation of Cycles

You receive all necessary medication and fertility protocol in the clinic to proceed with your fertility treatment back home. Our coordination manager assists you with your synchronization with your egg donor. You will be aware of the start time for your medication, the time for ultrasound checks, your arrival day for donor eggs fertilization and blastocyst embryo transfer.

 

In case you undergo ovarian stimulation, you have no synchronization, but your own IVF protocol.

 

6. 2nd Visit. Fertilization

During your second visit, you will receive additional medication, visit your fertility doctor for an ultrasound check. Please note that you have to arrive together with your partner for the second visit. Your stay will last from 5-6 days, from the day of the donor eggs pick-up procedure till the embryo transfer day.

 

In case you undergo ovarian stimulation, you arrive earlier than your husband, or your husband can accompany you for the whole period or just arrive for the fertilization procedure.

 

7. Embryo Transfer

Embryo cultivation lasts 5 days in the specialized laboratory in the fertility medical center. The procedure of embryo transfer takes place in the morning on the 5th day. You are fully assisted during this procedure. Your coordination manager accompanies you to the clinic room, meets you after the procedure, and gives explanations regarding your protocol actions after. 5-6 days.

 

10-14 days for ovarian stimulation. IVF

 

8. Pregnancy Test

You make the blood test for pregnancy hormone hCG level 14 days after your embryo transfer. Inform the result to your coordination manager to receive advice for the next step.

 

• Positive – We are glad and wait for the first ultrasound.

• Negative – you can process with the next attempts. If you have an unlimited egg donation package with a guarantee, you proceed until the positive result without additional payments. Please note that you can have 1-2 ovarian stimulation in the guaranteed egg donation package and proceed unlimited with egg donation only in case of unsuccessful IVF procedures.

   

9. Transition to Surrogacy Package (Optional)

If you have chosen an egg donation package with a transition to the surrogacy package and you have made a decision to use this option, you inform your coordination manager and receive advice on next steps.