Your Journey to Egg Donation: All About the Egg Donor Process

At Manchester Donors, we’ve been supporting donors through the process of donating their eggs for more than 35 years. We're proud of our work and always grateful to those who want to help someone else create their family.

If you are thinking about donating your eggs to help someone else start their family, you may be unsure how the process works. In this guide to the egg donor journey, we provide all the information you need to decide if you’re ready to become a donor.

APPLY – We genuinely value our egg donors and the gift they provide. It's part of why we go to such lengths to ensure our donors are completely supported throughout your journey. We prioritise your well-being and encourage you to ask questions about any aspect of the donation journey. If you’ve decided to become an egg donor, the good news is that the first step of your journey is designed to be very straightforward, complete a short application form on our website to ensure you meet our criteria and confirm your interest.

If you can progress with your application at this stage, you will receive an email asking you to confirm if you’re happy to continue and to book a convenient time to have a friendly chat, or implications call, with one of our dedicated Donor Programme Assistants, Steph or Olivia.

They will discuss the process in more detail, what’s involved and answer any questions. If you’d like to know a little bit more about our donor programme assistants, you can find out all about their work on our blog.

EGG DONOR ELIGIBILITY SCREENING – After you’ve had your implications call, our team will explain your next steps. As you must meet specific criteria to become an egg donor, we’ll also arrange for you to undergo some initial screening tests to ensure you can donate.

These will include booking you for a blood test, urine test and transvaginal ultrasound to analyse your Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) level and screen for nicotine, as egg donors must be non-smokers.

You will also be asked questions about your family’s genetic medical history to ensure you are healthy and have no hereditary medical conditions. You can find out what information you’ll need in our guide to completing your family medical history.

For donors based outside the Greater Manchester area, we have recently opened several satellite clinics across the North and West Midlands to ensure that attending your screening appointments can be as convenient as possible.

When you apply, you will be able to select your preferred clinic for all your initial screening appointments, and when you start your treatment, you will be cared for at our state-of-the-art clinic in South Manchester. Please ask our team questions you have about regional appointments.

DONOR COUNSELLING & CONSULTATION – Once we have all your test results, you’ll find out whether you can proceed with your egg donation journey. The good news is that if your results are satisfactory, you will be invited to meet with one of our counsellors to discuss the legal aspects and other important implications of becoming an egg donor.

A key aspect of the support you are offered as an egg donor is donation implications counselling, where one of our expert counsellors will walk you through the legal and emotional aspects of the egg donation process. Our donors use the counselling session as an opportunity to discuss and explore the donation process in more detail.

As all our counsellors have lots of experience working with egg donors, they're more than equipped to guide you through this stage and offer any advice.

We hold our counselling sessions virtually, meaning you can attend from the comfort of your own home. You can attend your counselling session with your partner too.

Our team will also arrange for you to meet virtually with a specialist fertility consultant/fertility nurse, who will discuss your family medical history with you and ensure you can proceed with your egg donation. At this stage, you will have additional blood tests before you proceed.

PREPARING FOR YOUR EGG COLLECTION –As part of the donation process, you will be asked to produce a 'pen picture and goodwill message'. We ask that you consider it a portrait containing the basics of what makes you unique and your well-wishes for any child born from your donation. Writing your egg donor pen picture and goodwill message is often one of the most intimate parts of the egg donation process, and our donors often like to invest time into ensuring they're perfect, as it's when you get to tell someone who needs an egg donor all about who you are, which is important to our recipient patients.

There are many things you can put in your pen picture – but there are also many things you can't. Maintaining anonymity is vital between the egg donor and recipient, so you can't include anything that could potentially make you identifiable, such as specific details about where you work or currently live.

Our dedicated Nursing Team will carefully plan your donation cycle and invite you to a virtual preparation appointment where you will learn to self-administer the required medication. You’ll need approximately 3 – 4 clinic appointments leading up to your egg collection to monitor your progress.

EGG COLLECTION – On the day of your egg collection, you will be invited to our state-of-the-art clinic in South Manchester, where our team will welcome you. Our nursing staff will be on hand to help you prepare for your egg collection.

In preparation for your procedure, you’ll be given sedation and painkillers to ensure you’re comfortable. The good news is, despite receiving sedation, you won’t have to stay at the clinic overnight.

Instead, you will be ready to go home after a short rest and a check-up with our clinical team. We do ask that you don’t drive yourself anywhere for at least 24 hours after your procedure, so please ensure you arrange for someone to collect you from the clinic.

AFTER EGG DONATION – After your donation, we will monitor your recovery, ensuring you have everything you need for the last stages of the journey. You will undergo some final screening tests approximately 3 months after donation. By this stage of your journey, you will have received the compensation of £750 for your donation; this will cover your time and any expenses for attending each appointment visit.

Here in the UK, egg donors are always in high demand. Research from the HFEA indicates that children born in the UK with the help of donor eggs and sperm have risen by more than 64% since the 1990s.

We try to treat every egg donor applicant with care and consideration at every stage of the egg donor journey – if you’d like more information on the process or our egg donor criteria, please visit our website, or if you'd like to speak with a member of our dedicated donor team - contact Steph and Olivia at 0161 300 2734.

If you're ready to begin your egg donor journey, apply online today. We will be more than happy to consider your application and support you through your egg donation journey.

Your Journey to Egg Donation: All About the Egg Donor Process

At Manchester Donors, we’ve been supporting donors through the process of donating their eggs for more than 35 years. We're proud of our work and always grateful to those who want to help someone else create their family. 

If you are thinking about donating your eggs to help someone else start their family, you may be unsure how the process works. In this guide to the egg donor journey, we provide all the information you need to decide if you’re ready to become a donor. total.

APPLY – We genuinely value our egg donors and the gift they provide. It's part of why we go to such lengths to ensure our donors are completely supported throughout your journey.  We prioritise your well-being and so encourage you to ask questions about any aspect of the donation journey. If you’ve decided to become an egg donor, the good news is that the first step of your journey is designed to be very straightforward, complete a short application form on our website to ensure you meet our criteria and confirm your interest.

If you can progress with your application at this stage, you will receive an email asking you to confirm if you’re happy to continue and to book a convenient time to have a friendly chat, or implications call, with one of our dedicated Donor Programme Assistants, Steph or Olivia.

They will discuss the process in more detail, what’s involved and answer any questions you have. If you’d like to know a little bit more about our donor programme assistants, you can find out all about their work on our blog.

EGG DONOR ELIGIBILITY SCREENING [EJ1] [LEG2] – After you’ve had your implications call, our team will explain your next steps. As you must meet specific criteria to become an egg donor, we’ll also arrange for you to undergo some initial screening tests to ensure you can donate.

These will include booking you in for a blood test, urine test and transvaginal ultrasound to analyse your Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) level and screen for nicotine, as egg donors must be non-smokers.

You will also be asked questions about your family’s genetic medical history to ensure you are healthy and have no hereditary medical conditions. You can find out what information you’ll need in our guide to completing your family medical history.

For donors based outside the Greater Manchester area, we have recently opened several satellite clinics across the North and West Midlands to ensure that attending your screening appointments can be as convenient as possible.

When you apply, you will be able to select your preferred clinic for all your initial screening appointments, and when you start your treatment you will be cared for at our state-of-the-art clinic in South Manchester. Please ask our team questions you have about regional appointments.

DONOR COUNSELLING & CONSULTATION– Once we have all your test results, you’ll find out whether you can proceed with your egg donation journey. The good news is, if your results are satisfactory, you will be invited to meet with one of our counsellors to discuss the legal aspects and other important implications of becoming an egg donor.

A key aspect of the support you are offered as an egg donor is donation implications counselling, [EJ3] [LEG4] where one of our expert counsellors will walk you through the legal and emotional aspects of the egg donation process.  Our donors use the counselling session as an opportunity to discuss and explore the donation process in more detail.

As all our counsellors have lots of experience working with egg donors, they're more than equipped to guide you through this stage and offer any advice. 

We hold our counselling sessions virtually, meaning you can attend from the comfort of your own home. You can attend your counselling session with your partner too.

Our team will also arrange for you to meet virtually with a specialist fertility consultant/fertility nurse, who will discuss your family medical history with you and ensure you can proceed with your egg donation. At this stage, you will have additional blood tests before you proceed.

PREPARING FOR YOUR EGG COLLECTION –As part of the donation process, you will be asked to produce a 'pen picture and goodwill message'. We ask that you consider it a portrait containing the basics of what makes you unique and your well-wishes for any child born from your donation. Writing your egg donor pen picture and goodwill message is often one of the most intimate parts of the egg donation process and our donors often like to invest time into ensuring they're perfect, as it's when you get to tell someone who needs an egg donor all about who you are, which is really important to our recipient patients.

There are lots of things you can put in your pen picture – but there are also lots of things you can't. Maintaining anonymity is vital between egg donor and recipient, so you can't include anything that could potentially make you identifiable, such as specific details about where you work or currently live. 

Our dedicated Nursing Team will carefully plan your donation cycle and invite you to a virtual preparation appointment where you will learn to self-administer the required medication. You’ll need approximately 3 – 4 clinic appointments leading up to your egg collection to monitor your progress.

EGG COLLECTION – On the day of your egg collection, you will be invited to our state-of-the-art clinic in South Manchester, where you’ll be welcomed by our team. Our nursing staff will be on hand to help you prepare for your egg collection.

In preparation for your procedure, you’ll be given sedation and painkillers to ensure you’re comfortable. The good news is, despite receiving sedation, you won’t have to stay at the clinic overnight.

Instead, you will be ready to go home after a short rest and a check-up with our clinical team. We do ask that you don’t drive yourself anywhere for at least 24 hours after your procedure, so please ensure you arrange for someone to collect you from the clinic.

AFTER EGG DONATION – After your donation, we will monitor your recovery, ensuring you have everything you need for the last stages of the journey. You will undergo some final screening tests approximately 3 months after donation. By this stage of your journey, you will have received the total compensation of £750 for your donation; this will cover your time and any expenses for attending each appointment visit.

Here in the UK, egg donors are always in high demand. Research from the HFEA indicates that children born in the UK with the help of donor eggs and sperm have risen by more than 64% since the 1990s.

We try to treat every egg donor applicant with care and consideration at every stage of the egg donor journey – if you’d like more information on the process or our egg donor criteria, please visit our website, or if you'd like to speak with a member of our dedicated donor team - contact Steph and Olivia at 0161 300 2734.

If you're ready to begin your egg donor journey, apply online today. We will be more than happy to consider your application and support you through your egg donation journey.