Update July 18, 2011

Thank for all the donations that have come in....We are still short of our goal. Our blog site is now featured on:
http://secretinfertility.vpweb.com/Our-Story.html

After months of searching for an egg donor we finally have found our gal!!! This process is very emotional..things you would have never thought you'd look at in someone is now staring at you. I felt so jugemental when viewing their figures and what were their interests. One gal had a pear shape body and I thought..."O god, my child may have weight issues"..then to a thought, "What hell is wrong with you Paige, how terriable of you". I started crying..SHOCKER..that I was judging these wonderful women who were so gracious to go through an ordeal to give their eggs to someone who couldn't have children....Then the counselor assured me that I was being totally normal to be picky..it's my child. I have friend who struggle with weight and just wanted to set my childs genes up with the least challenges. One gentlemen had her take a picture of an egg donor's hands!!

Egg donor's get $5000 for their first time..if they are repeated donor, meaning they have had successful births, their fee goes up. One gal's fee was $13,000!!! She was pretty and had a high I.Q. and few master's.

If I went through an egg donor agency they ad their fee on top of it.

Estimated cost's look like this:
Agency Admin/Coordination Fee:...........$4,500
retainer fee..........................$1,500

Donor's Compensation: $5,000
Legal fees:..............................$750
Donor legal Fees.........................$350
Donor Insurance..........................$400

Total Estimated..........................$12,500.00
If you want genetic Counseling it's $200

If you want an egg donor that lives far you then have to pay
Hotel, transportation $30 a day, Per Diem $50 food..if she has kids with her then you have to pay for them too...or their childcare..$300 and lost wages!!!

When finding an egg donor..you get to see a profile..Picture's (them as a child, body shot, some have family pics), medical history, interests (profile), education, family history.

If I had to do Surrogacy..which thank God I don't..it runs about $68,773.00!!!! This does not include medical, which is about another $30,000-$45,000

I went through my Doctors Office for Egg donor..it saved me $6000...no agency fee,etc.

If I did go with agency..EDSI is amazing..they are so caring and take care of everything..they go to battle for you to even cut costs.

What was important to me was education, eyes, and family health...my egg donor has green eyes, blonde, fit and has a lot of drive in life...she's also Christian..practicing which showed me her spirituality was important...her constitution is partially genetic. The embryo will have my blood from caring it:)

I will be trying my own eggs as well. My Dr cut some major costs for us to do so:)