We match a donor to you

Matching you with a donor

At O.L.G.A. Fertility Clinic, we match you to an egg donor who fulfills your own individual requirements. Our matching process is highly personal, and we do not proceed unless you are happy with the donor we put forward for you. It is up to you to tell us which characteristics are most important to you when choosing a donor. We respect your wish. Egg donors available for our Matched donor programme have provided the clinic with detailed medical and social information about themselves including photos. To a potential recipient these donors have disclosed age, blood group, height, weight, colours, education, job.

How the process works at O.L.G.A. Fertility Clinic

All the egg donors we provide have been thoroughly tested for medical and psychological fitness during our recruitment and screening process. Whichever one we choose, you can be confident that she meets these requirements.

We believe in matching you in a very individual way to the right donor. This means that we personally meet you at your Initial Consultation in order to assess you better before suggesting a donor (unless you use our Shared Care programme). We always try to find out what characteristics are most important to you. For most infertile women, this involves finding a donor who physically resembles them as much as possible. We therefore provide comprehensive non-identifying information about their egg donor (i.e. information that does not contain any personal data). We always meet our donors personally to make sure the match is correct.

To meet the requirements of donor anonymity under Russian law, O.L.G.A. Fertility Clinic does not supply photographs of donors. (The only exception to this is in our Personal and Premium Egg donation programmes, in which you may view photos of your donor as a child.) However, we take photographs of egg donors and egg recipients, and compare them in order to provide as close a match as possible. This is of course particularly important if you do not come for an Initial Consultation.

When selecting an anonymous egg donor, we consider similarities in terms of appearance (race, height, build, eye, hair and skin colour), and try to find you the most attractive donor who fits your profile. We can also match for blood group and Rhesus factor. As a donor’s intellectual abilities are also often an important aspect, we note her educational level and provide details of her occupation. In addition, we can search for a donor who has particular characteristics (such as a Jewish donor) if couples have special concerns. Many of our donors are of North European appearance, with blue/green/grey eyes and blonde or brown hair. It is therefore almost always possible to match you with a brunette or blonde donor who has the same eye colour as yourself.

Once you have told us your requirements, we search through O.L.G.A. Fertility Clinic’s databank for the most suitable donor. We always meet our donors personally to ensure the best possible match. We give you details of our proposed donor’s age, height, weight, hair colour, eye colour, education, occupation and ask you to make a decision. If you are not happy with the donor we have suggested, you are of course free to ask us to make another match. We do understand the extremely sensitive nature of egg donation treatment, and will only go ahead when you are happy with our proposal.

If you would like your O.L.G.A. Fertility Clinic doctor to match an egg donor to you with consideration for your priorities, please fill in this form.

• If you prefer to visit us for the Initial Consultation, you will receive your individual Egg Donor proposal and your medical Treatment Plan either at the consultation or within 2 weeks after the consultation.
• If you prefer to visit us only once (without an Initial Consultation) within our Shared Care Scheme, please provide us with:
  • contact details of your local consultant * (name, e-mail, phone number)
  • your photographs (of your face from the front and in profile, both now and when in your 20s)
  • the desirable time frame for your visit to our clinic for the Embryo Transfer

Within 2 weeks after providing us with this data, you will receive from your O.L.G.A. Fertility Clinic doctor  your individual Egg Donor Proposal and your medical Treatment Plan.