What does the treatment involve?

The treatment for a volunteer egg donor is the same as for a woman undergoing an IVF or ICSI treatment. See IVF Step-by-step on the CRG Web site to read more about it.

The treatment consists of three phases:

• preliminary investigations;
• hormonal treatment intended to mature several eggs simultaneously;
• egg pick-up: as soon as the eggs are mature, the harvesting procedure takes place.

For the donor, this marks the end of the treatment. The collected eggs are fertilized in the lab with sperm from the acceptor’s husband. One or two embryos are then placed in the acceptor’s uterus.