Embryo Donation

Embryo donation is the treatment of a couple using embryos created by the fertilisation of another woman's egg with her partner’s sperm. These embryos would have been frozen during that couple’s IVF/ICSI cycle for their future use. That couple may then have decided that they no longer require those embryos for their own treatment, but have agreed to them being used for the treatment of other people.

Receiving donated embryos

Donated embryos are normally frozen so this is essentially a Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) cycle. Currently very few couples donate embryos, so treatment is rarely available through this route.