Celebrating Hope

I know it has been awhile since my last posting, and that says it all. Our business has finally picked up from the tough economic times and we have been faily busy. I figured it was time to post our new discount program.

The World Egg Bank - Donate Eggs or Find an Egg Donor
Celebrating Hope – For a Limited Time
Limited time offer on our New "Celebrating Hope" discount program:

During the months of May and June, 2010, recipients are able to lock in a discount off the agency fee for a fresh donor cycle or purchase price of frozen donor eggs with a non-refundable deposit made prior the end of June. A $1000 deposit will equal a 10% discount, and a $1500 deposit will equal a 15% discount. This discount is applicable to all the options that we offer: fresh donor, frozen eggs, and custom choice. For more details, go to our website: www.theworldeggbank.com

Good Article in New Times

There is a very good article on the subject of the bills currently working their way through the Arizona Legislature to the House. Check out the article on this website: www.phoenixnewtimes.com

AZ State Legislation

These proposed laws in Arizona would impose new and unprecedented restrictions on donor egg treatment for infertility. Donor egg IVF therapy is actually the most successful medical treatment for many couples who are trying to have a baby. It has been used successfully in this country for more than 20 years. Yet, SB 1306 / HB 2651 would pull the rug out from under this medical treatment and take away the last remaining hope for many couples in Arizona.

SB 1306/HB 2651 discourages egg donor therapy by outlawing the compensation traditionally provided to those who donate eggs for infertile couples. All this does is under-compensate valuable medical donors and discourage them from helping people who want to have a baby. Arizona would be the first state in the U.S., to RESOLVE’s knowledge, to deny egg donors appropriate compensation.

Senate and House Bills on Egg Donation in AZ

The Arizona legislature quickly pushed anti-infertility bills -- Senate Bills 1306 and 1307 and House Bills 2651 and 2652– will impose new and unprecedented restrictions on donor egg treatment for infertility. These restrictions will essentially limit donor egg programs in the state of Arizona.

We let lawmakers know that we will not let them interfere with the care of infertility patients in Arizona. Couples impacted by infertility deserve to be able to have all treatments available to build their families regardless of the State in which they live.

The hearings for both the Senate Bills and House Bills were held on Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010 and the bills were passed. The Bill limiting egg donor compensation was passed with amendments which we have not seen yet. This is not over!

New Recipient Appreciation Bonus Offer

Recipient Appreciation Bonus – For a Limited Time
Receive 10% off the agency fee or 10% off the purchase of frozen donor eggs beginning February 15th until March 15th, 2010.

The World Egg Bank (TWEB) is offering a program to recipients to receive an agency fee discount of 10% for a fresh donor egg cycle and 10% on banked frozen donor eggs. TWEB has over 400 pre-screened egg donors available and the largest bank of frozen donor eggs in the US. For additional convenience, TWEB offers an exclusive financing program for fresh donor egg cycles or the purchase of frozen donor eggs.

To qualify for the discount, donor selection and contract execution for the fresh donation cycle or frozen donor egg selection and finalize purchase must occur by March 15, 2010.

Egg Donors Needed

The World Egg Bank is one of the largest egg donor/ egg bank agencies in the world. Our experienced, friendly staff will guide you through the process. Women between the ages of 18 - 29 may earn $2500 to $5000 per egg donation cycle depending upon state of residence. Travel, if required, would be at our expense.

This is what can be found in any of the ads we place looking for qualified egg donors. This gives our potential recipients one of the largest selection of donor databases from which they can select their donor.

The Egg Donation Process

Donation Process
•The process begins with screening.
•After screening, the fertility process takes about 3 weeks, involves about 8 doctor's visits, about 20 hours of your time and a number of painless self-administered injections.
•Over about a 10-day period, you'll also take a second injection of natural hormones to signal your body to simultaneously mature a number of eggs at once.
•Finally, you will be scheduled for retrieval of the eggs before they are released into your own body. To avoid any discomfort, you may be put to sleep by general anesthesia or a tranquilizer before the procedure begins.
•During retrieval, a thin needle is inserted into the vagina and through the back of the vaginal wall to retrieve the microscopic eggs. The eggs are removed through the needle from the fine membrane follicle sacks that grow on the outside of the ovary.
•Retrieval takes about 30 minutes and is considered quite painless by most donors. There are no cuts or incisions.
•Recovery time varies from person to person. Generally, a donor experiences mild to moderate discomfort similar to menstrual cramps for some days. Few donors experience discomfort at a level that requires them to limit their activities.
•Although extremely rare, in less than 1% of cases, more serious complications occur that require medical attention or hospitalization.

Proven and Innovative Technology

Worldwide Leaders in Egg Banking
The World Egg Bank is distinguished among Egg Banks throughout the world. Many physicians enjoy working with the World Egg Bank for these reasons:
A Unique and Highly Reputable Board
The World Egg Bank developed and tested the technologies to make frozen egg banking possible. Our Scientific Director, Dr. Jeffrey Boldt, pioneered research and development of oocyte freezing and thawing, and made it a viable alternative to fresh donor egg cycles.
Proven and Innovative Technology Endorsed by the Industry Leaders
Dr. Jeffrey Boldt’s published data clearly demonstrated that oocyte cryopreservation could be performed with reproducible success, leading to excellent survival rates and viable offspring (Human Reproduction, Vol. 18, No. 6 pp. 1250-1255, 2003).
Unmatched Experience in Delivering Quality Donor Eggs
To our knowledge, The World Egg Bank has delivered more donor eggs than any other bank worldwide.
Experience Working with Hundreds of Recipients
The World Egg Bank was founded with the idea that the recipient experience could involve choice of donor and comforting guidance throughout the donor egg process.

Egg Donor Compensation

You Can earn Compensation
We recognize that donating an egg takes time and effort on your part. The World Egg Bank compensates you $3,500 - $5,000 US for your role in the egg donation process. The actual amount depends on the state where you live. We issue a check to you on the day of egg retrieval.

You aren't responsible for any out-of-pocket expenses as an egg donor. This means that all fees and medical costs related to your egg donation are paid by the woman receiving your eggs, or The World Egg Bank. We’ll also cover any long distance travel costs. You are responsible only for transporting yourself to and from local doctor's appointments.

Some Egg Donor Questions Answered

What Kind of Relationship Will I Have with the Recipient?
That is between you and the recipient. Some donors and recipients never actually meet and have no real emotional relationship or contact. In other cases, the donor and recipient share a powerful emotional experience together and form a bond. Ultimately, The World Egg Bank will help you and your recipient decide what type of relationship is best for both of you.

Will I Have a Relationship with the Child?
This is ultimately a choice for the recipient. Most recipients are deeply grateful for the opportunity made possible by the donor to bear a child, but then wish to have an exclusive relationship with the child.

Occasionally, recipients welcome the involvement of the donor in the child’s life. That gives the donor an important choice.

We Guide You at Every Step of the Way
The World Egg Bank has worked with over 1,000 egg donors, and we have personally guided each donor through the egg donation process. Once approved as an egg donor, a representative of our staff is assigned to you and is available whenever you have questions.

Medical Acceptance of Your Egg Donor Choice

Medical Acceptance
Your physician will help you decide, based on his or her own criteria, what makes a donor more to suitable than another to provide the outcome you desire.

It is our firm belief, based on years of experience with couples who have had children with our egg donors, and World Egg Bank’s founder’s own experience having 3 children conceived with the help and generosity of an egg donor, that families are built upon relationship and bonding much more so than genetic traits. Once you are able to move beyond the grieving of the loss of your own genetic history, concerns about the origin of your child’s biological make-up become less important. However, it is important to understand this is a highly emotional decision, and objectively understand that the true potential to select a donor based on her physical and personal characteristics that are similar to your own, is not as clear and predictable as most commonly perceive.

Our Scientific and Medical Advisory Board

Our Scientific and Medical Advisory Board
Dr. Michael Tucker
Dr. Simon Fishel
Dr. Mark D. Johnson
Dr. Steven F. Mullen
Dr. Mark Hughes

Our growing Scientific and Medical Advisory Board is pleased to announce the additions of Drs. Simon Fishel and Mark Johnson to our team.

Our World Egg Bank Team

The World Egg Bank Management Team
Diana Thomas, M.A.
President & CEO
In 1995, Diana Thomas recruited a donor to conceive her first son. Drawing from that experience, in 1996, Diana founded X and Y Consulting, Inc. an international egg donor recruiting agency that matched couples across the US and Canada with donors throughout the world. She has since managed over 2,000 donor-recipient matches.
Frustrated by the challenges involved in Fresh Egg Donation, in 2004, Diana, Drs. Jeffrey Boldt and James Akin founded Cryo Eggs International LP. In 2005, these efforts led the world’s first “frozen egg bank baby.”
Diana had her own three children with the assistance of egg donors, and has considerable experience working with the complex needs of recipients seeking out a donor’s assistance. Her unique perspective and dedication to both donors and recipients have been the foundation of The World Egg Bank.

Jeffrey Boldt, Ph.D.
Scientific Director
Dr. Boldt is one of the early US pioneers in early egg freezing technology. Dr. Boldt has lectured extensively and authored many national and international articles on infertility, and serves as both Program and Scientific Director, Assisted Fertility Services for Community Hospital-Indianapolis and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine.

James W. Akin, MD, FACOG
Medical Director
Dr. Akin has practiced infertility for 20 years in both an academic university setting as well as in private practice. He is board certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He has published numerous medical articles on infertility in peer-reviewed journals and continues to do clinical infertility research. He is currently in private practice in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, and is owner and Medical Director of Bluegrass Fertility Center, Inc.

Frozen Donor Eggs

Frozen Egg Donation
In 2005, the physicians of The World Egg Bank perfected egg freezing/thawing. By removing the need ot match the timing between the donor and recipient, many of the logistical issues in the Fresh Egg Process are no longer applicable.

Frozen Egg Donation is the preferred process because:

1.It eliminates the need for cycle synchronization between donor and recipient
2.It does not require the donor to travel to complete the donation.
3.It Permits the recipient to receive tested mature eggs immediately and to fertilize and implant them depending only on her own schedule.

Because studies have shown that using fresh eggs and frozen eggs has no material impact on the likelihood of achieving fertilization, this is the method most frequently used by The World Egg Bank.

Choice, Empathy and Guidance from the World Egg Bank

We Are Empathetic Because We Were Once Recipients
There are three key elements to the experience that we create for your patients:
1. Choice
The World Egg Bank has compiled one the largest Fresh Egg donor registries worldwide and one of the largest Frozen Egg donor banks in the US. We evaluate new donors every day and are committed to continuing to build a highly competitive roster of donors.
2. Empathy
One of the TWEB founders, Diana Thomas, has three children through egg donation, and has worked with several thousand couples in need of egg donors through her donor matching agency of 13 years. This unique experience has helped to create a culture of empathy and understanding toward all recipients. We understand them because we’ve been there.
3. Guidance
Our staff are trained in all aspects of the donor egg process and are available to provide information and guidance throughout the process.

Satisfied Customer Feedback on The Egg Donor Process

We were so nervous about choosing an egg donor because we felt like we were rolling such large dice, but the World Egg Bank was amazing. They helped us choose the right donor out of hundreds of candidates and guides us through the whole process.

~ Happy Customer, Kansas City


The Variety of Our Donors goes a long way to helping satisfy potential recipients.
We select donors from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, a variety of occupations and personalities, and across many other factors to give you the largest possible selection of egg donors, and among the largest anywhere throughout the world.

Frozen Donor Egg FAQ's

Why should I use frozen donor eggs instead of fresh donor eggs?
Frozen donor eggs are safer from infectious disease due to the 6-month quarantine. Also, with frozen donor eggs are immediately available., the selection is greater and availability is more immediate. Coordination of menstrual cycles with the fresh donor is eliminated allowing more flexibility in the frozen donor egg cycle. Finally, using frozen donor eggs can be cheaper than a comparable fresh donor IVF cycle, and you are sure of the outcome, while eliminating unexpected costs.

Why do the frozen eggs cost so much?
The price of the frozen eggs available for sale reflects the costs incurred by The World Egg Bank for donor recruitment, genetic and psychological screening, testing for infectious diseases, stimulation medication and egg retrieval costs, egg freezing and storage fees, donor legal fees, donor emergency medical insurance and donor compensation. Many donors are screened before we select the few that meet the standards of The World Egg Bank.

The Ease of our Frozen Donor Eggs

Frozen Eggs
Pregnancy using already retrieved, frozen donor egg is truly a tremendous step forward. In 2004, scientists at The World Egg Bank developed egg freezing technologies now used by fertility doctors throughout the world. The World Egg Bank screens, prepares the donor eggs and retrieves them before you even see them on our roster. Instead of attempting fertilization right away, we freeze the eggs and store them for later use.

At a time of your choosing, the eggs are shipped within days to your doctor, where they are thawed and fertilized. Independent research shows that the probability of success is essentially the same in both the frozen and fresh egg processes.

The frozen egg process happens on your own schedule, and this means that there’s no need to synchronize your menstrual cycle with your egg donor’s. You do not have to wait for 3 – 6 months, or longer, for the egg donor to complete screening and egg retrieval, nor accept the risks of dealing with obstacles along the way and unexpected costs. This also eliminates the need for an egg donor to travel.. Finally, each of our egg donors are rigorously tested and only healthy looking, mature eggs are frozen. For these reasons, a growing number of our clients prefer the frozen egg process.

Motivations for Becoming an Egg Donor

The Emotional Side of Egg Donation
Every woman has her own reasons for becoming an egg donor. For some, it’s a unique opportunity to give a part of themselves to help create a life, while for others the cause is noble and the financial rewards alluring.
As you explore your own reasons for choosing to become an egg donor, you may also be thinking about these issues.
How Will Friends and Family View My Egg Donation?
Donating such a personal part of yourself is an emotional experience both for the recipient and for you, the egg donor. It is critical that you have a good support structure around you as you go through the process.
For this reason, be sure to communicate openly about your decision with your closest friends and family so that they will understand the subtle changes in your daily schedule and body rhythms. Friends and family will often have their own questions about the egg donation process, and you may refer them to this website for more information.
The World Egg Bank has worked with over 1,000 egg donors, and we have personally guided each donor through the egg donation process. Once approved as an egg donor, a representative of our staff is assigned to you and is available whenever you have questions.

Many Different Donor Egg Options Available

When only Fresh or Frozen aren’t quite right: TWEB Custom Choice™ and Embryo Custom Choice™ Programs
Although our clients recognize the immense personal benefits from the Frozen Egg process, sometimes the egg donor you want is only available for Fresh Egg donor protocols.

Not anymore. Using the Custom Choice Process, you can choose a donor from the Fresh Egg registry, and opt to ultimately obtain the donor eggs as frozen eggs. The World Egg Bank will absorb all the risk and expense of the process, and ship you the number of frozen eggs you wish. The Custom Choice Option brings together the convenience of the Frozen Egg process with largest possible selection of egg donors. With the Custom Choice Option we can retrieve, freeze, and ship your eggs within 6-8 weeks.

Selecting Your Egg Donor

One of the Most Important Decisions You’ll Make
Selecting an Egg Donor is a decision that is new to anyone whose doctor has suggested this is one of their most hopeful options for conception. Every recipient has a different idea about what would make an ideal donor. These are some of the factors commonly considered:
Comfort level
Whether you meet the donor in person or never meet the donor, based on the available information you do have, it is relevant for most people to consider their ability to identify with the donor. Do you feel drawn to her? Does she somehow feel familiar? Do you like what she writes about herself, do her personality traits seem compatible with your own?
Physical Resemblance
Many recipients try to find the donor that is an exact physical match to what they look like. The truth is you can’t, although you can select a donor from a particular ethnic group, of a similar height, of similar complexion, or other isolated features in common. Keep in mind that physical resemblance is just one factor, and not necessarily genetic. A donor and her sister may not look at all alike, so you may not have a child that closely resembles the donor. Genetically speaking, there are many variables that are entirely unpredictable. Keep an open mind, and consider that you may be able to increase probabilities, but not certainties, when trying to find a donor that matches your family profile.
It is our firm belief, based on years of experience with couples who have had children with our egg donors, and World Egg Bank’s founder’s own experience having 3 children conceived with the help and generosity of an egg donor, that families are built upon relationship and bonding much more so than genetic traits. Once you are able to move beyond the grieving of the loss of your own genetic history, concerns about the origin of your child’s biological make-up become less important. However, it is important to understand this is a highly emotional decision, and objectively understand that the true potential to select a donor based on her physical and personal characteristics that are similar to your own, is not as clear and predictable as most commonly perceive.

The World Egg Bank and IVI Spain

Experience Spain Through TWEB’s Travel Medicine Program with IVI
The World Egg Bank will arrange your frozen-egg donation and IVF treatment at IVI in Alicante, Spain.For more information on this program CONTACT US today!
Why Alicante?
Alicante is a beautiful harbor city along the tranquil waters of the Mediterranean Sea. It is famous for its miles of pristine sandy beaches, breathtaking mountains, and year round moderate temperatures.
Alicante is rich in traditional cultures and cuisines with an overlay of modern architecture, comforts and restaurants. With a population of 300,000, Alicante is a major vacation destination for many American and European tourists.
For more information, visit http://www.alicante-city-insiders-guide.com
Here is how the program works:
1.Contact our staff at The World Egg Bank to coordinate your Program.
2.We work with your local reproductive endocrinologist to coordinate your cycle with the physicians in Spain
3.You complete review and signature of consent forms and contracts
4.You make one payment to TWEB, and TWEB coordinates all the details
5.You and your spouse complete testing and counseling according to Spanish law.
6.Your appointments and medical calendar is scheduled by TWEB, in consultation with IVI
7.You work with IVI to select your egg donor from their extensive egg donor bank
8.Sperm sample is tested, frozen and shipped to IVI…TWEB coordinates the logistics
9.You travel to Spain for your donor egg thaw, fertilization and embryo transfer