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How to Donate Eggs to Infertile Couples

A woman gives one of the greatest gifts a parent could ever know when she decides to donate eggs to infertile couples. With fertility clinics paying tens of thousands of dollars per egg retrieval, egg donation can be quite lucrative for donors as well. But before delving into the egg-donation process, it is important to understand how egg donation happens to help determine whether it is for you.

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Calendar Method to Determine Fertile Days

Whether for religious reasons or a desire for a natural form of birth control, many couples use the rhythm method. If they are trying to avoid pregnancy, they will abstain from sexual intercourse during a woman’s fertile time. Before a couple can effectively use this method, however, they must understand the woman’s cycle in order to determine when she typically ovulates. This can be done with a calendar and some simple calculations.

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Fertility Drug Side Effects

Advances in medicine have allowed many infertile couples to become parents. Unfortunately, the fertility drugs that women take to stimulate ovulation sometimes come with side effects. When you know about the side effects ahead of time, you can take action to prevent them from occurring or to minimize the effects.

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How Are Sperm Stored in Sperm Banks?

A sperm bank will freeze and store a man’s sperm until he–or someone else–is ready to use it. This is an ideal solution for anyone who must go through a treatment that can harm sperm production or ejaculation. Some sperm banks will even pay you for your specimen if you allow single women or infertile couples to use your sperm to conceive.