At Fertility Source Companies (FSC), we aim to foster a nurturing and supportive environment for intended parents and egg donors alike, ensuring the process is as rewarding as possible for all involved. We’re proud to extend our full-spectrum egg donation services to the state of Missouri, serving all major cities including St. Louis, Columbia, Kansas City, Springfield, and beyond. Our database of carefully screened egg donors is available to both individuals and couples looking to grow their families, and our team of experts is ready to help facilitate the process, every step of the way. Whether you are looking for an egg donor or considering becoming an egg donor yourself, FSC is here to help.
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Finding an Egg Donor in Missouri
Finding an egg donorin Missouri is a straightforward process with the support of FSC. We comprehensively screen a wide array of candidates to provide you with a large database of potential egg donors. Assessing your specific preferences and values, our team of experts will help you navigate the selection process, filtering through the pool of profiles until you find your ideal match.
Choosing an Egg Donor in Missouri
Our database features a compendium of profiles of egg donors to choose from, detailing candidates’ physical traits, educational history, personal interests, and more. Intended parents review profiles based on their specific values and preferences, with our experienced team on hand to answer questions, give insight and advice, and help you make the decision that best aligns with your desires.
Egg Donor Costs & Fees in Missouri
At Fertility Source Companies, we’re committed to being transparent about the financial side of the egg donation process, to help ensure you understand all anticipated costs from the outset. Our agency fee is $10,000, covering essential services in the egg donation process, such as the donor’s legal fees, mental health screenings, and medical insurance.
Egg donors receive initial compensation as well as payments for costs incurred during the process. Base pay typically starts around $8,000, varying slightly depending on experience, history, and specific preferences. Subsequent expenses can include transit and lodging costs if the donor needs to travel to the fertility clinic.
Candidates for egg donation in Missouri must undergo a series of tests and evaluations to ensure they meet our criteria for participation. These include:
Medical Screening: Physical exams and blood tests will assess the donors’ overall health, ensuring they’re ready and able to donate eggs.
Mental Health Screening: Psychological evaluations ensure the donor is mentally ready for the donation process, confirming both emotional stability and commitment.
Interviews and Background Checks: Rigorous interviews and background checks verify the donor’s personal history to ensure authenticity and reliability.
Genetic Testing: Blood panels screen for genetic disorders and any other potential complications providing an added layer of assurance for intended parents.
FDA Compliance Check: This step ensures all donors meet the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) strict egg donation guidelines.
Personality Profiles: Detailed assessments of donors’ personality traits and other characteristics help intended parents better get to know the donor ahead of time.
This comprehensive screening process ensures our pool of egg donors features only the healthiest, best-suited candidates for our intended parents to choose from, and ensures our donors feel thoroughly prepared for the process ahead of them.
Intended parents should factor in a wide range of considerations when selecting an egg donor, from the donor’s physical characteristics and personal interests to their medical history and educational experience. While intended parents should attempt to find a donor that best aligns with their preferences and values, it’s important to remain flexible and open-minded—maybe you’ll be drawn to a donor you’d never have expected.
No, egg donors do not have any parental rights to the child. The donor must sign legal agreements clearly waiving any parental rights or responsibilities before commencing the donation process. Reproductive attorneys draft and review these contracts to help protect all parties’ legal interests, as well as ensure the intended parents will be the legally recognized parents of any child born through the egg donation process.
The egg donation process starts with an initial application requesting access to our egg donor database. Tell us some basic information about yourself, including how to reach you and the doctor or clinic you’re planning to work with, and we’ll get in touch to learn more about you and how to get started with Fertility Source Companies.
Find an Egg Donor in Missouri
Contact us to learn more about our program and begin your path to growing your family.
Becoming an egg donor is an incredibly rewarding experience, changing the lives of individuals and couples who dream of becoming parents. FSC offers our full-spectrum support and guidance to egg donors in Missouri, helping you understand the process, ensuring your comfort, and answering any questions as you go.
Why Become an Egg Donor in Missouri
By becoming an egg donor in Missouri, you can help bring the joy of parenthood to the many individuals and couples who struggle with infertility and other complications, while also receiving financial compensation. Additionally, you will receive comprehensive medical care and learn more about your own reproductive health in the process.
Egg Donor Requirements in Missouri
Egg donors in Missouri must meet our specific requirements designed to ensure the best outcomes for donors and intended parents alike, including:
Age: Candidates must be between the ages of 21–29, the optimal range for the viability of eggs.
Health: Potential donors must pass comprehensive physical and mental health evaluations, and must have a healthy body mass index (typically under 31).
Lifestyle: Egg donors cannot smoke or abuse substances, and must maintain a generally healthy lifestyle.
Medical History: Candidates must have clean medical histories, free from genetic conditions that could affect the health of the donor or potential offspring.
Commitment: Donors must be fully committed to the completion of the egg donation process, including attending all necessary medical appointments.
Residency: Donors must legally reside in the United States.
Flexibility: Donors’ schedules must be able to accommodate the various medical appointments required during the donation process.
The egg donation process involves several key steps that are carefully planned from the outset to ensure the best outcomes possible for both donors and intended parents:
Initial Application: Provide basic information about yourself and your medical history in an online application to help us determine your initial eligibility.
Consultation: If your application moves forward, we’ll set up a conversation with our dedicated staff to get to know you better and to explain the process in full, answering any questions about becoming a donor that you may have.
Matching with Intended Parents: If you pass the screening process, we’ll create a profile for you in our database available to intended parents. You will then be matched based on the preferences of the intended parents to ensure the best fit.
Screening: Rigorous medical and mental health screenings are next. Medical evaluations include physical exams and blood tests to confirm general health and capacity for participating in egg donation. Psychological evaluations ensure donors are mentally ready and committed to the journey ahead.
Legal Contracts: Before entering into a formal arrangement, donors and intended parents are required to sign legal contracts that outline the responsibilities and rights of all involved parties from the outset.
Ovarian Stimulation: After the legal contract has been signed, donors will undergo a series of hormonal injections that stimulate the ovaries to help produce multiple eggs.
Monitoring: Donors will meet regularly with fertility specialists during this time to monitor their progress. Blood tests and ultrasounds will help confirm your body is responding correctly to medication and optimize egg retrieval timing.
Egg Retrieval Procedure: While the donor is under sedation to ensure comfort, a physician will use a thin needle to extract the eggs from your ovaries. This procedure typically takes just 20–30 minutes, and you’ll be able to return home the same day.
Recovery: Most donors return to normal activities within a day of egg retrieval. Your fertility specialist will provide detailed post-op care instructions and be available to support you throughout your recovery period.
Follow-Up: Finally, you’ll schedule a follow-up appointment to ensure your own health and well-being in the weeks following the donation process. This is also an opportunity to address any concerns or questions you may have for the fertility clinic.
Experienced medical professionals will oversee every step of the way for the duration of the egg donation process. FSC’s aim is to help you feel safe, comfortable, and informed throughout this journey, as you help intended parents achieve their dreams of starting a family.
Egg Donor Pay & Compensation in Missouri
Egg donors in Missouri typically receive $8,000 for each completed egg donation cycle, though the exact amount can vary slightly depending on location and other specific requirements. Donors who successfully complete multiple cycles tend to receive higher compensation the next time around. This financial reward is intended to compensate donors for their time, effort, and emotional commitment to the egg donation process.
On top of the financial benefits, egg donors receive top-notch medical care and the fulfillment of knowing they have helped intended parents create a family. Learn more about egg donor compensation and pay in Missouri.
Apply to Become an Egg Donor in Missouri
Are you ready to become an egg donor? We’ve worked with egg donors from all over Illinois, including but not limited to, Chicago, Springfield, and Rockford. Start your egg donor journey and apply today! Become an Egg Donor in Missouri
Egg Donor FAQs
The full egg donation process can typically take anywhere from three to six months, beginning with the matching phase, as intended parents select a donor based on their unique preferences, to medical checkups and hormone treatments, and ending with egg retrieval. Our expert staff will communicate with intended parents and donors alike at each step of the way.
No, egg donors have no legal responsibilities to any children born using their eggs, and all legal rights and responsibilities belong to the intended parents. Legal contracts are agreed to and signed before egg donation begins to establish these rights and expectations ahead of time.
Typically, egg donation is anonymous, to protect the privacy and interests of both donor and intended parents alike, and you won’t end up meeting the recipients. However, there are some instances in which donors and recipients may agree to meet, depending on agency policies and mutual agreement among all parties.
With the advent of genetic testing kits now available at home, however, it’s important to know that, although this is rare, a child born from your donation may have the ability to discover your identity down the line.
Missouri Egg Donation
Below is a list of the partner clinics we work with in Missouri. To learn more about their specific egg donor and surrogacy processes, visit their websites or contact them directly. If you don’t see your clinic listed here, please contact us and we can make appropriate arrangements with you.
Partner Clinics
Infertility Center of St. Louis 224 S. Woods Mill Road Suite 730 St. Louis, MO 63017 Ph: 314-576-1400 Fx: 314-576-1442 Web: http://www.infertile.com
Mid-Missouri Reproductive Medicine and Surgery 1506 E. Broadway #220 Columbia, MO 65201 Ph: 573-443-4511 Web: http://www.missourifertility.com/
If you don’t see your clinic listed here, please contact us and we can make appropriate arrangements with you.
