With the opening of the two-child policy, more and more elderly women are limited to their own physiological conditions and have to consider donor egg IVF as a last resort. However, the current source of eggs is far from meeting the needs of patients, and this pregnancy pulse will borrow this article to interpret the current situation of egg supply in domestic public hospitals! 【Pregnancy Pulse Health focuses on providing professional domestic and overseas assisted reproductive consulting services for Chinese families.】 】
Donor egg IVF can be done in public hospitals, but very few eggs from third-party women are used. Even if there were, waiting in line for eggs would take three or five years. Donor egg IVF is a kind of fertility behavior derived from IVF assisted reproductive technology, the purpose is to solve the problem that elderly women cannot have normal birth due to extremely low egg quality, ovarian function decline, premature ovarian failure, chromosomal abnormalities and so on.
1. What is donor egg IVF?
Donor egg IVF, also known as donor IVF, can be implemented in the fertility centers of major public hospitals, and the process is to borrow the donor's eggs and the husband's sperm to fertilize in the laboratory in vitro into embryos, and then transfer to the wife's uterus to complete the process of conception. Donor egg IVF is a kind of fertility behavior derived from IVF assisted reproductive technology, the purpose is to solve the problem that elderly women cannot have normal birth due to extremely low egg quality, ovarian function decline, premature ovarian failure, and chromosomal abnormalities.
2. The current situation of egg supply in domestic public hospitals
According to the Measures for the Administration of Human Assisted Reproductive Technologies formulated by the competent health authorities of the mainland, donor egg test tube recipients must meet the following conditions:
Loss of the ability to produce eggs;
The woman is a carrier or patient of a severe genetic disorder;
Has factors that significantly affect the number and quality of eggs.
However, at present, domestic donor egg IVF is not yet protected by law, although there are public hospitals that can provide egg sources, the Ministry of Health is still strict about egg donation.
With the liberalization of the two-child and three-child policy, the proportion of elderly patients undergoing IVF fertilization has increased, and the number of women who need to provide eggs has also increased accordingly, but the cruel reality of egglessness has made many families desperate. Surveys have shown that 85% to 90% of women who need donor egg IVF are unable to obtain eggs.
Conditions for egg donorship in public hospitals:
1. People who need "other people's eggs" must at least meet the medical indications for IVF fertility treatment, such as having serious genetic problems (as in the case of source chromosomal translocation), non-ovulation, or very low egg quality.
2. The "donor egg" woman also needs to meet the medical indications for IVF, in other words, she is also receiving IVF fertility treatment.
3. "Donor egg" women obtain at least 20 mature eggs at a time in a ovulation promotion cycle, and "donor egg" women must retain at least 15 to donate the remaining eggs to up to 5 other people. That is, assuming that a donor woman obtains 22 mature eggs after ovulation induction, only a maximum of 7 eggs can be "donated" to others, and only a maximum of 5 people can obtain these eggs.
4. The "egg donor" woman and the "egg recipient" family will never meet, and both parties will never know who the other person is. This is the principle of "double blindness". At the same time, both parties also need to provide information on relatives within three generations of the immediate family to prevent the possibility of "close relatives".
Conditions for egg donor agencies:
1. The "donor egg" woman can be selected, according to the blood type of the infertile party and the requirements of the corresponding screening, the age of the "donor egg" woman is generally 19-26 years old.
2. It is possible to arrange a meeting between the "egg donor" woman and the "egg receiving" family, but it cannot involve the detailed privacy of both parties. Adopt the principle of "mutual blindness".
3. Women on the "donor egg side" must undergo a comprehensive physical routine examination to ensure that the donated "eggs" are also healthy.