In general, donor eggs are often recommended to those wome whom has repeated failed IVF treatments, who are in late 40, who have low ovarian reserve or early ovarium insufficiency. It is absolutely reasonable to really think about using donor eggs, because at that stage, women are facing 2 options: (1) to using their own eggs with chance of success is as low as a few percentage. In theory, among those over 40, chance of getting pregnant is around 5-8% for each cycle. This chance even getting worse rapidly as the women is aging. (2) to have donor eggs with much higher chance of getting pregnancy: the chance of a fertilized donor egg producing properly developing embryos is about 80%, the chance that those embryos will implant in an uterus is about 75-85%, and the chance of clinical pregnancy is about 55-65%. Certainly, there are other factors which can affect the success of a pregnancy, but around 60% can be expected from a donor egg’s outcome. In Hungary, using donor eggs is not a social norm. There are stil social attitute barrier and legal restrictions to have this: the egg donor can only be a direct relative of the couple,…
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