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Is IVF stressful?

There are many stories that report that IVF is very stressful, but for an altruistic egg donor this is simply NOT the case.

Most stories about egg donors come from egg sharers - women who long for a baby and can’t conceive naturally and who need treatment in order to help them conceive themselves. The stress that you hear about is often as a result of the emotional pressure that they feel and not the treatment, where all their hopes are pinned on a successful outcome. This will not be the case for you and you really shouldn’t experience this degree of stress.

Being completely honest, the main stress felt by our donors comes more from the inconvenience. The intrusion into your daily life albeit for a couple of weeks is sometimes difficult when trying to juggle a job, and possibly a family, at the same time. If you are trying to get to the clinic for an appointment and you either get lost, transport is running late or something crops up at the last minute - that is where the stress can come from.

Support for Egg Donors makes the difference

All Altrui donors are given massive support going through an egg donation cycle including easy access to someone at the end of the telephone, even late at night and at weekends. We can help in arranging transport or childcare, provide an instant reimbursement of expenses (in some situations) so that you are never out pocket, and offer contact with other Altrui donors who have gone through the process themselves.

We hope that you never ever feel left alone and this, in itself, helps the whole process become less stressful when there is always someone on hand to help you sort out the practical problems. Discussing and planning when and how you want to do this means that we will fit in with you, so that you will find it minimally intrusive.

In reality it is only about 10 - 12 days of inconvenience and, with careful planning and timings of appointments to suit you, we can usually make this a pretty stress free experience for you.