“Egg donation can be considered a totally safe method, both physically and psychologically.”
The Egg donation is a technique that science has developed to combat infertility in women who have little or no chance of achieving pregnancy with their own eggs.
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Which women resort to egg donation?
In other articles we have mentioned that the Female infertility can have multiple causes, including ovarian failure. This condition can occur for three causes, due to loss of ovaries or ovarian function as a result of surgery or after suffering from severe diseases such as cancer; due to a genetic condition that is reflected in low egg production or absence of ovulation, or in women who, due to their advanced age, produce low-quality eggs.
The latter case is becoming more and more frequent, since the changes experienced in society have led many women to postpone motherhood until the age of close to 40.
What does egg donation consist of?
The egg donation program consists of choosing a donor woman and it is stimulated to produce a greater number of eggs and the recipient’s uterus is prepared to later receive the embryos. The donor’s eggs are prepared in the laboratory, as are the sperm of the recipient’s husband and using assisted reproduction techniques such as In vitro, they are fertilized in the laboratory. Once the embryos are formed, they are transferred to the uterus of the recipient woman.
Psychological aspects of egg donation
One of the points that causes some controversy when talking about egg donation is the possible detachment that the mother may feel for her child as it is not a child conceived with her own eggs. In other words, since the genetic material that the child receives does not correspond to its mother, but to a donor.
Is there a danger of rejection?
The studies carried out and the experience of previous cases show that this hypothetical rejection does not occur. The psychological bond generated by pregnancy for nine months, with a new life developing inside the mother’s body, is much stronger than the reluctance that may exist for this reason.
In fact, it has been proven that, on most occasions, mothers even forget the fact of egg donation and experience motherhood as if the process had taken place in a totally traditional way.
Therefore, egg donation can be considered a totally safe method, both physically and psychologically.
