Reduced treatment costs for egg-sharers
Our egg-sharing programme means you can receive our Egg-Sharer IVF treatment package to significantly reduce the overall cost of your own treatment, whilst helping others through the donation of some of your eggs.
Fertility treatment often results in the production of more eggs than you need. These could be used to help another woman who needs donated eggs to conceive a child.
How does it work?
Bourn Hall was one of the first clinics to introduce an egg-sharing programme. Our scheme, available at our clinics in Cambridge, Norwich and Wickford, benefits both the sharer and the recipient; patients who need eggs have a shorter waiting time, and women sharing their eggs receive a heavily discounted IVF treatment package, or IVF with ICSI. The table below shows what is included.
| Egg-Share Providers | £1,500 package price |
|---|---|
| IVF or ICSI | Embryo transfer |
| Drugs up to pregnancy test | HFEA registration fee |
| All in-treatment laboratory tests and procedures | First-year storage |
| All monitoring and scanning costs | Pregnancy urine test |
| Cyst aspiration (if required) | Pregnancy ultrasound scan |
| Local anaesthetic or intravenous sedation (for egg collection procedure only) | Follow-up consultation (if taken within two months of treatment completion) |
| Egg collection | Counselling |
| Medical and nursing care | Initial investigations |
If you are sharing your eggs, you will have ovarian stimulation treatment – a normal part of a cycle of IVF. After the eggs are collected, they’re shared between you and the egg-share recipient. The minimum number of eggs for sharing is 12; 6 for the patient and 6 for the recipient.
Your eggs are inseminated with your donor's or partner’s sperm, while the eggs given to the recipient are inseminated with their donor's or partner’s sperm. Each couple will have their own embryos transferred in a carefully controlled process.
The priority is that you become pregnant, so if an insufficient number of eggs are collected, the egg share will not go ahead. Instead, you will keep all of your eggs and, depending on when this is realised, will still receive the Egg-Sharer IVF cycle package.
Who needs donor eggs?
You will be helping women who need donated eggs who may have:
- A premature menopause – this affects 1-2% of women under 40
- Ovaries damaged by chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment for cancer
- Been born without functioning ovaries (e.g. Turner’s syndrome)
- Ovaries resistant to stimulation by the pituitary hormones
- A high risk of passing on genetic disorders to their offspring
- Poorly functioning ovaries as they get older
Is it right for me?
Egg-sharing is a way for you to have our standard IVF package and treatment at a heavily reduced price while also helping someone else whose only chance of achieving a family is with donated eggs.
To egg-share you must be a non-smoker aged between 18-34, with a body mass index (BMI) of less than 30. You will need to undergo screening tests to ensure that you are free of infections, diseases or genetic conditions that might be transmitted.
The process for sharing is the same as for anyone donating eggs.
What next?
The first step is to talk to our Donor team who will advise you whether egg-sharing is appropriate for you.
The next step will be to attend a consultation where we will ask you about your medical and family history, and perform a medical examination and blood tests. If you are eligible for egg-sharing and you decide you wish to go ahead, you and your partner will receive free counselling and be able to discuss all the implications.
Our specialist egg-share coordinators will be on hand to guide you through the whole process and advise you about your treatment at every step of the way.
You can schedule a call with our Donor team at a time that suits you.
We’re incredibly proud of our success rates
At Bourn Hall, you can be assured of the best chances of having a baby within the shortest possible time. If you are under 35, you have a 73%* chance of falling pregnant within one year.
*Data from 2021
Younger than 35
If you are under 35, you have a 73% chance of falling pregnant within one year.
35 to 39 years old
If you are 35-37 years old and you continue treatment with Bourn Hall, you have a 63% (50% for 38-39 year olds) chance of getting pregnant (pregnancy seen on scan) within one year.
40+ years old
If you are a female aged over 40 and you continue treatment with Bourn Hall, you have about a 25% chance of getting pregnant within one year.
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“We went to an open evening at Bourn Hall Wickford and came away feeling really positive about the place. The staff were really friendly and the presentation was clear about the statistics regarding success rates and live birth rates; their data was very transparent. We came away feeling like we would really be looked after.”
Katy and Leigh are parents to Charlie after IVF
Patient 2023
“We chose to make an appointment at Bourn Hall Wickford because of the favourable reviews. When we got there and met the staff they were just so lovely, making us feel welcome and explaining to us what tests would need to be done and what our options were; we just thought ‘yes, let’s get the ball rolling!”
Jess and Fran are mums to Nathan after IVF with donor sperm
Patient 2023
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