How do you donate eggs, what is the process?

So once you've been accepted to be an egg donor within our scheme, the process is actually relatively straightforward. You would go into the clinic to have what we call a baseline scan, which is normally on day two or day three of your cycle, just to make sure that everything was okay. And at that point, you would start injectable medications to stimulate your ovaries to produce follicles, and they're the sacs that contain eggs. You will go to the clinic regularly within a 10 to 14 day period for regular scans to make sure that your follicles are developing. Once your follicles are big enough and you had enough to donate, we would give you a trigger shot that you would have 36 hours before the egg collection. This basically helps to mature your eggs and get them ready for the egg collection. On egg collection day, you'd go into theatre. The procedure takes about 30 minutes. And you'll be sedated throughout the egg collection. So you shouldn't feel any pain during the process. Once you've had the egg collection, we would advise that you go home and rest off that day. You must have somebody with you to get you home and you shouldn't drive for 24 hours post-procedure.