IVF & Egg Donation Blog

Sunshine helps people of all sexual orientations to build the family they are dreaming of. If you and your partner want to start a family, you may wonder what options you have and how the process looks like.
There are two ways for male couples to have a child – using a gestational carrier and traditional surrogacy.
At Sunshine, we’ll use your or your partner’s sperm in combination with an egg donated by an egg donor.
The egg will be fertilized by IVF and the embryo will be carried by a surrogate mother.

At one point in your fertility journey, you should make a stressful, but important step – visit a fertility clinic.
The initial several appointments can be particularly intimidating because you do not know what to expect and must process large amounts of information provided to you.
It is essential to ask the right questions at your appointments but if you feel overwhelmed you will easily forget those questions. One trick is to prepare a list of questions prior to your appointments.

The ability to use the services of an egg donor came as a godsend for many women who have lost their fertility.
Many people are aware of the fact that the fertility of a woman begins to decline after she hits the mid-30s.
More and more women decide to build a family later in their life; unfortunately, unlike men, their fertility rapidly declines after a certain age and they are unable to have kids.

The quality of sperm affects the possibility of conceiving the child.
That`s why many couples are eager to know what affects sperm quality and how to improve it.
Common bad habits and an unhealthy lifestyle can greatly harm your sperm.
There are many factors that affect sperm quality. Sperm should have 50% or more healthy spermatozoa that have an oval head and a long tail.

The most prominent symptoms of PCOS are irregular or missing periods and food cravings.
Since these symptoms are also present in a multitude of other disorders and easily dismissed as consequences of a stressful lifestyle or lack of sleep, PCOS often goes undiagnosed.
Modern medical science has not yet been able to discover the exact PCOS causes, but it is likely that they are rooted in genetics.

You may have heard about egg donation – a cousin or a friend have mentioned an article they were reading – and you’ve decided to do some research as well.
After spending a few evenings digging for information online, you may have found that you are even more baffled than you were original.
No wonder! While the procedure of egg donation itself is not too complicated, it requires a basic understanding of the steps included – and what is being required from you as an egg donor.

If you think of becoming an egg donor, you might feel confused about the whole process and unsure whether you are ready for it. The best way to understand how egg donations happen is to break the process down into separate steps.
You apply to become an egg donor.
We review your application.
If your application is accepted, you make it into our donor database and eventually become selected by intended parents.

Being a parent is not a walk in the park, to begin with. But when it comes to explaining to your child how they arrived into this world, the task appears nothing short of overwhelming and is being dreaded by many parents.
On the other hand, you cannot postpone this fundamental conversation indefinitely, it will take place in one way or the other and you better be prepared for it.