Donor Egg transfers is it like a IUI procedure of and IVF procedure?

iloveflipflops · October 2013

What is the protocol for Donor Egg transfers is it like an IUI? or an IVF procedure???

Lacyj67 · October 2013

Depends on if your doing a fresh cycle or frozen. We froze all after our donor had her ET and waited to get me ready. But you can get ready while she's stimming and do a fresh after her ET. It's the same protocol but they may switch up meds depending on fresh or frozen.

LittleLady77 · October 2013

We did fresh. It was just like an IUI except there was 2 people between my legs, my doc and the embryologist. They also had me lay there for quite a while after the transfer.

JM1977 · October 2013

It's like IVF only your donor does the egg retrieval part and you do the embryo transfer.

iloveflipflops · October 2013

JM1977 said:

It's like IVF only your donor does the egg retrieval part and you do the embryo transfer.

So basically the non donor part is like a Transfer for an IVF cycle? Done in an office not the operating room.

JM1977 · October 2013

Yeah, more like an office. At SG, the embryo transfers are done in rooms off the lab area. It's a very easy procedure, though - no meds or sedation or anything. They just transfer the embryo(s) through a catheter into your uterus.

iloveflipflops · October 2013

Yeah I go to SG. I'm assuming when you say the rooms off the lab area your talking a room near where they do cyst aspirations and egg retrivals right?? not the rooms where they do your bloodwork and ultrasound monitoring appointments right?

iloveflipflops · October 2013

JM1977 said:

Yeah, more like an office. At SG, the embryo transfers are done in rooms off the lab area. It's a very easy procedure, though - no meds or sedation or anything. They just transfer the embryo(s) through a catheter into your uterus.

So they are called embryo transfers not egg transfers???

MrsT4 · October 2013

iloveflipflops said:

JM1977 said:

Yeah, more like an office. At SG, the embryo transfers are done in rooms off the lab area. It's a very easy procedure, though - no meds or sedation or anything. They just transfer the embryo(s) through a catheter into your uterus.

So they are called embryo transfers not egg transfers???

Yes, it is called an embryo transfer because once the eggs are retrieved from the donor, your partner's sperm (or donor sperm) is used to fertilize the eggs in the lab. Depending on the number of eggs retrieved and how they are progressing, most places will schedule a 3-day transfer or a 5-day transfer of the developing embryos.

FYI, the actual transfer procedure is easy peasy, very similar to an IUI, it's just that the catheter contains embryos (the fertilized eggs) and not sperm. However, in some cases (like mine), the actual transfer is done in an OR (same room as the retrievals, only no anesthesia). You still get to wear a gown and all (LOL), b/c they want to keep the environment as sterile as possible...the embryos are very delicate!

HTH!

JM1977 · October 2013

iloveflipflops said:
Yeah I go to SG. I'm assuming when you say the rooms off the lab area your talking a room near where they do cyst aspirations and egg retrivals right?? not the rooms where they do your bloodwork and ultrasound monitoring appointments right?

Yes, I think it would be the egg retrieval rooms just off the lab not the more doctor's office type ones.

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