Egg Donor with pictures

[lemonmelonapple]

Hello All,

Partner and I are exploring IVF with a donor egg. Just wondering if anyone has experiences with using a donor egg organisation that provides adult pictures of the donors?

Many thanks,

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[Sorrento79]

I haven't come across that. We had no photo of our egg donor and a photo of the sperm donor as a child only. It'd be pretty easy to identify an adult donor on social media with their adult photo?

[Shroedy]

I have a feeling that in the U.K. that wouldn't be permitted. Some places won't even provide a child photo.

[lemonmelonapple]

I think these things do exist:

For example:
https://catalogue.ovoria.com/

Just curious if others have had experience with them? I understand that UK has anonymity laws, but other countries are different here, for example the scandinavian ones, Norway, Sweden, etc.

[Nordlo]

You can get photos or even meet the donors by FaceTime in the US.

[ChipOffTheOldBloch]

Why a picture..?

[BoohooWoohoo]

@ChipOffTheOldBloch

Why a picture..?

Presumably you might want to pick a donor with a similar features and colouring to you (the mother to be).

[Shroedy]

@lemonmelonapple

I think these things do exist:

For example:
https://catalogue.ovoria.com/

Just curious if others have had experience with them? I understand that UK has anonymity laws, but other countries are different here, for example the scandinavian ones, Norway, Sweden, etc.

So presumably you're looking at going abroad for treatment then? I have to say, in my experience even seeing child photos was unhelpful as inevitably you see things that don't look like you and they're never going to be your double. I found that unhelpful. The clinic I used did the matching, give you confirmation of the key physical characteristics for you to say yes or no. People keep saying my 15 month old looks more and more like me and I chuckle inside every time.

[ChipOffTheOldBloch]

Is info on colouring etc not available anyway? I don't know, but I'd assume so? I know a.family member had basic height/colouring etc info on a sperm donor. Being honest if I could see pictures pictures I'd look and pick a decent looking one, but that's probably why it's (quite rightly) not a thing according to pp.

[ListerMummy]

I’m not aware that this is currently possible anywhere in the UK?

Ovoria bank aren’t approved by HFEA at present. I have personally used them abroad and had a terrible experience (19 eggs and nothing to transfer). Their shipping is also crazy expensive (€1000s) as the situation in Ukraine means everything has to go via Slovakia.

There are a few other frozen egg banks in Europe which offer both child and adult photos. Cryos in Cyprus is the main one but they don’t ship to the UK and I don’t believe any of the others do either.

The place to go is the US where there are quite a lot of banks which will provide you with a full set of ‘lifetime’ photos (Fairfax, Donor Nexus, Donor Egg Bank USA, American Egg Bank, etc.). There’s also Sunshine Agency in South Africa.

[blacksnow]

Eggdonationfriends could help. They list the best IVF clinics, and pretty well know which clinics (countries) provide pictures of adult egg donors. Hope this helps.