Questions About Being an Egg Donor

You will submit an egg donor application to Magic Journeys. If your application is accepted, we will schedule a consultation, verify your ID and medical history and, schedule a blood test to determine your fertility.

Egg Donation is a routine medical procedure. Your case manager will walk you through the procedure, letting you know any medical risks and all other issues before proceeding. It’s very important to understand how the medical aspects of egg donation work before you decide to donate. You will be required to follow specific IVF procedures prior to the egg retrieval to ensure health and fertility of the eggs.

Similar to our surrogates, we sincerely value and respect our egg donors. Besides the industry-leading compensation package, you will experience the degree of respect and care that no other agencies can provide. Feel free to contact us for a no-obligation egg donor consultation, or check out our website to learn more about who we are, what we do, and why we aim to make the surrogacy process as rewarding as possible for everyone involved—including the egg donor, the surrogate mother and the intended parent.

A member of our admission team will review your application and reach out to you within 24hours if you qualify. An egg donor video consultation will be scheduled. You can use our easy online scheduling system through your online account to schedule your consultation stress free! The egg donation process will discuss your application in detail, and you can ask any questions you have at any time.

Once your egg donation consultation is done, we will ask for some documents including photos, IDs, transcripts, etc. A fertility testing will be conducted to measure hormone levels to ensure your body will produce an ideal number of good quality eggs. It’s also a great way to learn about your own fertility at no cost to you.

Then, we’ll make your egg donor profile and publish onto our online egg donor database, so that your profile will become searchable by IPs.

Your profile will be safe in our password protected database. When intended parents decide to use donated eggs, MJ will compare their profile and preferences against egg donor profiles to recommend “match” for them to consider. They will review the matched profiles and make their own decision as to the egg donor they wish to use.

Match times vary greatly from within a day to over a year. The best advice we can give you is to be patient and take it easy. Your dedicated case manager will keep you updated on regular basis.

Once you have been screened and approved to become a Magic Journeys egg donor, your profile will be created. You will remain completely anonymous to the intended parents, but they will be able to see your age, health history, ethnicity, education, IQ and other key details that will help them decide whose eggs they want to use.

Once a match is confirmed, our case manager will work with you to arrange the psychological evaluation and the full medical screening. You will also be referred to your attorney for the legal process.  The medical clearance is usually received in about 2 weeks after the screening. Once the medical and legal processes are done, the egg donation cycle starts.

Though we do prefer that our egg donors work exclusively with MJ, it is understandable if you choose to work with another egg donor agency. Please keep in mind that once you are in process with another agency, you need to let us know right away, so we can mark your profile as currently unavailable in order to avoid any disappointed intended parents and/or any legal complications in the future.

Yes. Being adopted doesn’t disqualify you. Please keep in mind that a full family health history is still mandatory including the biological parents, grandparents, and siblings.  As long as you have access to this information, we welcome you to apply.

The short answer is maybe. It really depends on where you live. If you live outside of Southern California, the chance is high that you will need to travel for your donation. Plan to take two trips to the IVF doctor for the donation process. The first is a one-day trip for your medical screening. You’ll get to choose the date of this appointment, so you can work it into your schedule. The appointment will need to occur Monday-Friday. The second trip for your actual egg retrieval will take 4-10 days, though it’s generally on the shorter end. Any appointments between your first and second trip will be at a local monitoring facility that your primary IVF doctor will send you to. A companion is needed for you on the day of your egg retrieval, so make sure to plan accordingly. All the travel costs for you and your companion are covered.

The base egg donor compensation at Magic Journeys is $20,000. You may be able to earn more if you have outstanding qualities that make your eggs more desirable. It could go up to $100,000 for some specialty donors. Repeat egg donors can also earn more. All travel and medical expenses will also be covered. Learn more about Magic Journeys Egg Donor Compensation.

Many Magic Journeys egg donors can donate up to 6 times per donor. Once you go through it for once, it is gratifying and fairly easy to repeat. However, medical reviews are performed between each cycle to ensure the quality of each donation.

After you have been officially selected and approved as a Magic Journeys, LLC egg donor, it typically takes around 2-4 months before any egg retrieval occurs. It can take longer or go quickly based on your situation and how soon a match is found. Your case manager will keep you updated.

If you decide you’d like to donate your eggs more than one time, you will need to have two regular periods between cycles.

If you have any sexual partners, they will be subject to infectious disease screening as part of the medical review process. The costs be covered by the intended parents. An average abstinence period of 3-4 weeks before egg retrieval is required.

This is entirely up to you and the parents. MJ will ask your preference on this issue during the screening/application process, so you can decide if you want to meet the parents or the child. Even if you do want to, however, it is still up to the IPs. We simply let them know your preferences and they decide how they want it to be handled.

No, you don’t. Each IVF doctor is a little different, but the average period of abstinence is 3-4 weeks total. We’ll be honest. Not many egg donors are really interested in being sexually active during this time period, as you may have some bloating and abdominal tenderness.

We would love to consider you as an egg donor, as long as you have not taken testosterone as part of your transition. Being an egg donor requires the administering of fertility medication to stimulate the ovaries, and testosterone can interfere with the fertility medical protocol.