Embryo Donation Program

Fertility Institute of San Diego offers patients looking to donate or receive embryos the care, coordination and guidance needed when building your family through embryo donation.

What is Embryo Donation?

When patients use IVF to create their families, they often will have remaining embryos (that are frozen) once they have decided that their family is complete. Some couples have used their own eggs and sperm to create these embryos; others have had to move to the option of donated eggs and/or donated sperm. Whichever the case, some patients have remaining embryos that they do not wish to destroy, but would rather them be given to patients that have not been able to achieve success in family options.

This donation can be identified (where the donor and recipient will already know or meet one another) or non-identified.

How do I receive donated embryos?

If you would like to be the recipient of donated embryos, the first step is scheduling a consult with FISD to review the embryo donation process, timelines and fees. You will then be placed on an embryo recipient list, and be informed once embryos are available.

Once embryos are available, you will be given information on the available embryos, including genetic and health backgrounds on the egg and sperm source, embryo quality details, and PGT information – if PGT was completed. If you chose to move forward with the donation, you will complete a psychological consult, genetic consult and legal contracts to confirm the change of the embryo’s custody.

Once this has been completed, you clinical team will coordinate the frozen embryo transfer cycle.

For more information, or if you have any questions on our embryo donation program, please reach out to info@fertilityinstitutesd.com.