| People often wonder what aspects will be different if | | | | |
| they conceive using ART or more specifically an egg | | | | After the first trimester, the baby starts producing |
| donation program. Having an egg donation pregnancy | | | | his/ her own hormones and so the pregnancy |
| is such a special experience and so much so that | | | | maintains itself. So the positive is that the injections |
| people record and treasure the whole nine months. | | | | stop after 12 weeks. Enough with the bruising! Every |
| | | | | thing else is the same. Egg donation recipients can |
| There are not many differences between a naturally | | | | breastfeed, give natural birth or their preferred |
| conceived confinement and an egg donation | | | | method. This is not affected in any way by the egg |
| pregnancy. For the first three months, the recipient | | | | donor treatment. |
| of donor eggs will need to take medication or | | | | |
| hormones to maintain the pregnancy. This is because | | | | One person even had a caesarian birth and the |
| the pregnancy was not created naturally, so some | | | | delivering doctor commented on the small ovaries in |
| support is required to ensure that the body has the | | | | the case of a woman in premature ovarian failure |
| right balance of female hormones - typically estrogen | | | | (POF) who had conceived with egg donation SA. |
| and progesterone. | | | | |