Give Life to a Dream | Become an Egg Donor
Why become an egg donor?
Denmark is in need of egg donors, and many women and couples are hoping for help to fulfill their greatest wish—to have a child. As an egg donor, you can give them an invaluable gift: hope and the chance to create a family.
Who can become an egg donor?
If you are a woman between 18-35 years old, healthy both physically and mentally, without hereditary diseases, and with a BMI between 19 and 29, you can become an egg donor. You can also donate even if you use contraception like birth control pills, an IUD, or if you are sterilized.
As an egg donor, you can donate in several ways:
- Anonymous donation
Where you and the recipient (the receiver) do not know each other and can never have each other's identity revealed. Only your basic profile is disclosed (hair and eye color, height, weight, blood type, ethnicity, and age at the time of donation). - Non-anonymous – non-contactable
Where you and the recipient do not know each other and can never have each other's identity revealed. In addition to the basic profile, extra information and possibly a baby photo can be provided. - Open donation
Where you and the recipient do not know each other, but the child has the option to receive your identity and thus have the possibility to contact you. Only your basic profile is disclosed at the time of donation. - Open donation with extended profile
Where you and the recipient do not know each other, but the child has the option to receive your identity and thus have the possibility to contact you. Only your basic profile is disclosed at the time of donation. In addition to the basic profile, extra information and possibly a baby photo can be provided. - Known donation
Where you donate to someone you know. This could be to a friend or a family member, but not your mother or daughter.
How does it work?
As an egg donor, you will receive compassionate guidance and support throughout the entire process. You will undergo a gentle hormone treatment followed by a pain-managed egg retrieval. In recognition of your generosity, you will receive a taxable compensation of 7.200 DKK per donation. You can donate up to 6 times. If you donate to someone you know, we consider it a friendly gesture, and therefore, no financial compensation is provided by the clinic.
Find more information in the videos at the bottom of the page. Please note: Videos are in Danish.
Contact us - we are here for you
Are you considering becoming an egg donor, or do you have any questions? The egg donation team at Aagaard is ready to inform and guide you. Send an email to od@aagaardklinik.dk or call us at +45 86126121 for a no-obligation conversation.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Exclusion and Quarantine
You cannot become an egg donor:
- If your BMI (Body Mass Index) is outside the normal range corresponding to 18.5 - 29.0
- If you are a regular or social smoker
- If you’ve had a piercing, tattoo or scarification within the last 6 months
- If you’ve had sex with a man, who had sex with another man
- If you have injected drugs for non-medical reasons
- If you have a bleeding disorder or coagulation disturbances
- If you’ve had sex in exchange for drugs or money
- If you’ve had sex with a person, who is supposedly infected with HIV or hepatitis B or C within the last 6 months
- If you have physical signs of a genital disease
- If you or members of your family have serious, hereditary genetic diseases
This is how it is done
While you’re undergoing the treatment described above to donate the eggs, the receiving couple will be undergoing investigation and preparation to receive your eggs.
First, you come in for a consultation with the doctor. Here you'll be informed about the legal and ethical aspects of egg donation. You'll also be informed about the procedure in detail, to make sure you feel comfortable with it and know exactly what to expect.
If you still wish to become an egg donor after this conversation, we carry out some blood tests (HIV, hepatitis, syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and HTLV) which are required by law. Furthermore, you’ll have a scan to check the position of your ovaries and pelvic conditions in general.
You’ll also be asked about hereditary diseases in your family and about you general physical and mental health. There are some recommendations in the legislation governing this area, and based on them the clinic checks that you meet the requirements and can become an egg donor.
When you donate eggs, the idea is to make sure several eggs mature at the same time instead of just the one that’s usual in a menstrual cycle. This means you’ll need hormone treatment to stimulate your ovaries.
Below you see a plan of the treatment involved:
Step 1 On day 1 of your cycle, you book an appointment for day 2 of your cycle. You can call us or send us an email, whichever way is more convenient for you. Step 2 On day 2 you come to the clinic for a scan and get a plan for your treatment. This is also the day you start the hormone treatment. Step 3 On day 9 you come in for a scan again. Here we measure the egg cells and count how many there are. We also find an appointment for a new scan. Step 4 When the largest of the egg cells measure 18 mm in diameter, we enhance the maturing of the eggs by giving an ovulation-triggering injection. Then after a 36-hour wait, the eggs can be extracted (aspiration). Step 5 The eggs are sucked out with a thin needle guided through the vaginal wall guided by ultrasound. After egg extraction you need to stay at the clinic for about an hour. Compensation and medication
When you donate eggs at Aagaard Fertilitetsklinik, you’ll receive a compensation of DKK 7.200 per donation.
However, the law very specifically says that donation must be 100% voluntary, and that it must never be part of a commercial transaction.
We have the medication you need here at the clinic. You will receive this medication when you start your treatment.
Instruction video for medication
